Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
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Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their true feelings and attitudes. They have no need for pretenses.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.
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