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2. “Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.”
W.H. Auden
Mystery, Pretense, Vulnerability, Creativity, Life Changes
4. “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything.” Orson Scott Card Identity, Pretense, Transformation, Politics, Influence, Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Pretense Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.”
W.H. Auden Mystery, Pretense, Vulnerability, Creativity, Life Changes
4. “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything.”
Orson Scott Card Identity, Pretense, Transformation, Politics, Influence, Self Fulfilling Prophecy
