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“Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.”

Angel Busy Clients Massage Masquerade

Book:Rave: poems, 1975-1999

Source: Rave: poems, 1975-1999

“A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.”

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism”

Reality Age Exercise Mere Profound Meaningless New Age Guru Academia Masquerade Profound Truth Drivel

Author:Gad Saad

“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

People Matter Stories Stuff Dark Deals Horror Ordinary Catastrophe Ordinary People Transparency Good Story Masquerade Encroachment Devious

Author:Joy Williams

“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.”

People World Way Remember Young Wise Youth Cynicism Being Wise Remember You Remembers You Masquerade

Author:Stephen Colbert

“As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."”

Seems Milk Cream Masquerade

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Real Wanted Felt Honest Needed Paint Being Honest Mask Cracks Masquerade

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece