Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

To pretend is to know oneself.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

If you’re not, pretend you are.’ Take

Pretend to be something you’re not until you are — fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

This led me to the thought that it might be easy to pretend to be a Seer. After all, if one pretended to have visions of the far distant future, how would anyone know if they came true or not?

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

Imagine, always pretending to run a world. Always imitating the sort of people they think they might be if the world were the sort of world it isn't. Pretending to be words like 'normal' and 'wholesome' and 'honest' and 'decent' and 'self-respecting' and all the rest, when even the words aren't real. Imagine, being people.

With accomplishment comes a growing pressure to pretend that we know more than we do. To pretend we already know everything.

Could we even pretend the law still existed? Or was it something you made up now, as the occasion required?

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.