Nonpretenders Quotes & Sayings

There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop. — Ian McEwan

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure, — J. Paul Getty

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas. — D.H. Lawrence

How strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed. — Kate Atkinson

It hurts being the one who loves more — Aimee Carter

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

All the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men
for the love of all that is good and true
they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards. — Elena Mauli Shapiro

Now when a people has dictators, that is a symptom that they are running mad. They should be watched. I think they should be watched very closely. And later they should be prevented. Now think it is not a nation but an individual, now see, this is like he had a disease. — Stevie Smith

It made him crazy, looking down into her beautiful eyes, at her creamy soft skin, knowing he couldn't touch her. — Trinity Faegen

Pretending often ends when you allow nonpretenders access to the better, safer worlds you create for yourself. — Matthew Quick

Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes. — David Brooks

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white people who were generous to others, respectful of their neighbors, and even kind to their black maids, gardeners, or shoe shiners
and wished them well
nevertheless went to the polls and voted for racial segregation ... Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system. — Michelle Alexander