Quotes with pretends

  • Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
  • Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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  • Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Jean Kerr Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Winston Churchill Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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