Sentence examples for what we pretend from inspiring English sources

"We are what we pretend to be," wrote Kurt Vonnegut in his novel "Mother Night", "so we must be careful about what we pretend to be".

Kurt Vonnegut once said: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be". He used it as a warning.

Now it seems that all of us want to be loved for what we pretend to be.

If the reader could reach Liese to pass over one piece of advice, it would be Kurt Vonnegut's from Mother Night: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be".

There's this sense of 'We are not really what we pretend we are,' and you have to compensate for that with a lot of narcissism and self-promotion".

As the writer Kurt Vonnegut observed, we are what we pretend to be, so we might as well pretend to be good.

"This kid can actually turn what we are pretending to do into more than us just gathering data and sitting in a room for a couple of weeks".

Apparently, while browsing in bookstores, people often pick up classic novels, which are inexpensive and prominently displayed reminders of what we only pretended to read in high school and college but now would actually appreciate.

So what are we pretending to remember?

Researcher Brené Brown can tell you what happens when we pretend everything's fine when it's not (often out of shame that we're not handling everything perfectly or that we're the only ones struggling).

It's not fucking cool that our identity exploration is mostly about being different kinds of objet d'sex, and it's not fucking cool that to feel like an objet d'sex we giggle and sigh and stop saying what we think or pretend we think less than we do, and it's not fucking cool that it's something we hate about each other.