“I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.” ThinkingWayMindStoriesFictionHappenedPretendingPublish Author:Ben Lerner
“It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.” IfsWould BeHalfNiceHappenedTvsDemocratUpsetPretendingAdsPlatformsBeing NiceJerusalemMurphyBooing Author:Allen West
“I never actually studied an American accent. I never learned it. I never had anybody teach me how to do it. It just kind of happened. I think I probably spent a lot of my childhood in front of my mirror pretending to do Cornflake commercials like the kids I've seen on TV from America.” ThinkingKindKidsAmericaTeachHappenedChildhoodFrontsTvsMirrorsPretendingAccents Author:India de Beaufort
“They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines.” KnowsWayLooksShowsBodyNaturalAnswersRecordsHappenedDesignEvolutionMachinesScientistMiracleYour BodyPretendingSelectionFossilsNatural Selection Author:Kurt Vonnegut