We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I…

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This…

— Rich Lowry

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives,…

— Nicholson Baker

“The word “friend” is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.”

— Carlos Wallace

“When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.”

— C. JoyBell C

“Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if…

— Jonathan Gash

In the realm of fakery, I would choose 'Rock Band' over 'American Idol' or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music.

— Carrie Brownstein

“When the situation seems to be exactly what it appears to be, the closest likely alternative is that the situation has been completely faked;…

— Paul Ekman

“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are hardly so…

— Charles Bukowski

“Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated”

— Dean Cavanagh

“The celebs I hate are the manufactured celebs. Famous people are surrounded by parasites and cocksuckers - people who hope to make a bit…

— Andre the BFG

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn't any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though it's faked…

— Tom Payne

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

— Robert J. Shiller

“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less…

— David Foster Wallace

“Fakery is a vital currency in our social intercourse. That’s not necessarily all bad. A lot of the time we pretend as a way…

— Leah Hager Cohen