There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.
Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
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