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  • I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

    People   Giving   Might  
  • They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

    Movie   Fun   Ems  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.

    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

    Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing
  • I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

    People   Lines   Today  
  • Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

    "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
  • For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

    John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.140
  • Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

  • True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

    Flower   Fall   Roots  
    "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II, section 43, 44 B.C..
  • These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.

    Iron   Race   Liberty  
    Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications
  • These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

  • Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

    John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.79
  • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

    Lying   Equality   Hype  
    "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.
  • I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

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  • Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

    Mean   Deceit   Show Me  
  • If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

    Art   Trying   Sake  
  • I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. I don't have professional pretensions. I've learned so much. So many things I've been doing in the visual, two-dimensional painting world parallel many of the inner working of music - how intervals resolve into each other, harmonic rhythm, tonal things - there's a whole vocabulary that overlaps. Sometimes people see pianos in my works - that I never think.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

    Pain   Stress   Way  
    Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.148, Modern Library
  • Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

    Sex   Truth   Honesty  
    "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.
  • Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

    Taken   Mean   Reality  
  • It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

    Marriage   Beach   Sweet  
  • ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

    Irving Stone (1937). “Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh”
  • When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

    Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher
  • To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

    Want   Faults   Fame  
  • The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

  • On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

  • There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

    Sex   Vanity   Rivals  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110
  • We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

    Heart   Vanity   Fame  
    Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.271
  • I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.

    Hate   Desire   Jargon  
    Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.
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