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To make believe.
To pretend.
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Movie violence is make believe.
"Get dressed to make believe".
Make believe.
"The idea of making believe," James wrote in a careful review of the first Stevenson Letters in 1900, "appeals to him much more than the idea of making love... Why should a person marry when he might be swinging a cutlass?" The answer, Harman says briskly, is he can do both.
It's hard to take the trio seriously; the cash idea has a boyish, make-believe quality.
Now the dream is not of plenty but of scarcity: the make-believe idea that we are still governed by the constraints of the seasons.
That doesn't leave much time, but still I'd like to believe that this is the science-fiction novel Amalfitano read and then forgot — that Bolaño loved Gibson's "make-believe idea" as much as I do.
It is just a make-believe idea to think that a public option could increase competition today now that the industry has grown and consolidated to a point that just four or five insurers control most of the market.
We live in reality, but in our minds, we live in an array of make believe worlds where our wildest ideas are not impossible.
Make-believe ideas.
"It wasn't a mockup and it was real enough to make us believe this idea would truly work," Dane says.
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