Pretense Quote by Paul Scott Download Open image ““One always saw and sees through pretense.”” — Paul Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretense Saw Sees Sees Sees Pretense
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“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
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“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
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“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
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It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In France, there… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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“If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the pretense of hope because… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
