Faking Quotes
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![Jess C. Scott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1603737393i/2980674._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”
― I'm Pretty
― I'm Pretty
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“In a world where happiness has become a social duty and sadness a public offense, life opens unrepentantly into a kaleidoscopic masquerade and a muddling carousel of faking. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”
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![Eoin Colfer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254336426i/10896._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Hey, bodyguard. You better get down to the gymnasium. This jumbo pixie guy is killing your sister." "Really?" said Butler, unconvinced. "Really. Juliet just does not seem to be herself. She can't put two moves together. It's pathetic, really. Everybody is betting against her." "I see," said Butler, straightening. Mulch held the door. "It's going to make things really interesting when you show up to help." Butler grinned. "I'm not coming to help. I just want to be there when she stops faking." "Ah," said Mulch, comprehension dawning on his face. "So I should switch my bet to Juliet?" "You certainly should" said Butler.”
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![Dave Eggers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1658526705i/3371._UY200_CR7,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.”
― The Circle
― The Circle
![J.M. Richards](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1370410581i/7122185._UY200_CR13,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other”
― Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
― Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.”
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
![Crystal Woods](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454813877i/8423205.jpg)
“If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.”
― Write like no one is reading 2
― Write like no one is reading 2
“Reevie . . . I feel wasted.” Her head sways from side to side, her hair hanging in her face. “Will you please take me home?”
I peer at her. She’s had, like, two beers. I’ve seen her finish a six-pack in under an hour and not get tipsy.”
― Fire with Fire
I peer at her. She’s had, like, two beers. I’ve seen her finish a six-pack in under an hour and not get tipsy.”
― Fire with Fire
![Elizabeth Gaskell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223499865i/1413437._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might have
thought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought into
every-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake, it was
rather the glitter of the pieces of a broken mirror, which confuses
and bewilders.”
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thought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought into
every-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake, it was
rather the glitter of the pieces of a broken mirror, which confuses
and bewilders.”
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![Barbara Ehrenreich](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1395953641i/1257._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces.
Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me.”
― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me.”
― Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“Does the person report having had the experience of meeting people she does not know but who seem to know her, perhaps by a different name? Often, those with DID are thought by others to be lying because different parts will say different things which the host has no knowledge of.”
― Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
― Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
“...when different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.”
― Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
― Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
![Craig D. Lounsbrough](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1698597499i/4172966._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that I’m not pretending, and somehow that doesn’t sound very god-like to me.”
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![Joel Derfner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1338147238i/123839._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“At the time he seemed both ancient and French, but the wisdom that has come with age tells me he was thirty-two and faking the accent.”
― Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
― Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
![Steven Magee](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1444680307i/4733010._UY200_CR52,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It is unclear if corporate governments are truly the dunces of human health or if they are just faking it in order to propagate a biologically toxic agenda on an unsuspecting global population.”
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![Ana Claudia Antunes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416833706i/4367104._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“So the earth is shaking
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss and dance all nights!
In no need of balance
Nothing makes sense
Get it loose with no excuse.
Shake and dance!”
― ACross Tic
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss and dance all nights!
In no need of balance
Nothing makes sense
Get it loose with no excuse.
Shake and dance!”
― ACross Tic
“More often than not, DID is dissimulated and camouflaged, so it is important to understand that, although its processes and structures may be active and powerful, its manifestations may be subtle.”
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“In summary, the conclusion that having DID is generally rewarding is unfounded because the vast majority of the attention such patients receive is skeptical, critical, exploitative, or hostile; they are often ignored if they do present symptoms of DID.
It is certainly possible that some individuals have attempted to feign the disorder. However, the hostile treatment that one would most likely receive would make feigning another disorder more rewarding.”
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It is certainly possible that some individuals have attempted to feign the disorder. However, the hostile treatment that one would most likely receive would make feigning another disorder more rewarding.”
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![Vincent Okay Nwachukwu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1573639181i/19684850._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“If “proverb is the palm oil with which words are eaten,” anyone said to have eaten his words without palm oil, is faking, take my word for it.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
![Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629693671i/3137322._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Moreover, I felt weak and in the right mood, and besides, shamming so easily coexists with sincere feeling.”
― Notes from the Underground & Other Stories
― Notes from the Underground & Other Stories
![Thomm Quackenbush](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612469586i/4890612._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This is not unusual in the annals of paranormal phenomena, where people espouse genuine experiences that elude any attempt of convincing evidence. The experiencer will doctor a photo or footprint precisely like what they saw, but a reconstruction after the fact. This attempt is invariably uncovered since people who are in the grips of the paranormal are unlikely to be masters of photo manipulation or biology, and the whole phenomenon is considered to have been fake.”
― The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
― The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
![Emma Lord](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1683047733i/18673646._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“And so starts a performance so stilted and awkward that somewhere up the street, our classmates rehearsing for the school’s production of Seussical! just shuddered without knowing why.”
― Tweet Cute
― Tweet Cute
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