Fakery Quotes

“When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The word “friend” is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likable image of yourself so that other people wouldn’t find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were. Logically, you would think that the moment a supposedly intelligent nineteen-year-old became aware of this paradox, he’d stop being a fraud and just settle for being himself (whatever that was) because he’d figured out that being a fraud was a vicious infinite regress that ultimately resulted in being frightened, lonely, alienated, etc. But here was the other, higher-order paradox, which didn’t even have a form or name — I didn’t, I couldn’t.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Fear makes strangers of people who you thought were friends.”
― Carlos Wallace

“A life coach? What does that mean? It doesn’t mean anything, does it?

So they ‘coach’ people on how to live their lives? Why don’t they mind their own fucking business? They only call themselves life coaches because they can’t get a job. Because they’re unemployable. And they haven’t got any qualifications either. Do you think they went to Uni to study life coaching? Of course they didn’t.

And who do they coach anyway? Do people go to them and ask to be coached on their lives? I hardly think so. They’d see a psychiatrist or a psychologist or someone with a bit of clout, wouldn’t they?

They don’t coach anybody at all, do they? They’ve made it all up.

So, there you have it. At the bottom end of the otherworldly, metaphysical scale, even less developed spiritually than Orphans or Horace, are Life Coaches.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Fakers Are Feted, Innovators Are Isolated”
― Dean Cavanagh

“Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.”
― Jonathan Gash, Jade Woman

“In a world of increasing fakery, genuine people are the sexiest.”
― Sam Owen

“Howard [Stevenson] smiled impishly, as if he'd lured me into a trap on the chessboard—a trap he now sprung. “Ah, yes, all his social activities, his community engagement, his golf… On the surface, sure, his life looks well-rounded—three dimensional, if you will. But I’d be willing to bet a platterful of roast beef sandwiches that his life was in fact, ‘pseudo three-D’...[A]ll of if was—whether he knew it or not—part of his strategy for pursuing financial success, not distinct elements of a well-rounded life. An extension of one dimension that appears to be multifaceted—three dimensional—but really isn’t, Pseudo three-D.”
― Eric C. Sinoway, Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work

“The celebs I hate are the manufactured celebs. Famous people are surrounded by parasites and cocksuckers - people who hope to make a bit out of it themselves or grab a few crumbs from the table. But a while back one of these parasites figured out "why go through all the hard work of trying to discover a talented sucker before somebugger else does?". "Why not just CREATE one, right here, right now?". So they pick someone who maybe owns one or two bits of the celebrity toolbox - an arse that doesn't look like it fell off the back of a refuse truck, or a complete lack of self-consciousness - and teach them to simulate the other bits. It works fine for the cameras, but when you meet them in real life - oh dear.”
― Andre the BFG, Andre's Adventures in MySpace

“The singer's voice is thin and fake, but it's pretty, and somewhere in the fakery is the true sadness of smallness and failure and believing in beautiful things that aren't real because that's the only way to get through.”
― Mary Gaitskill, The Mare

“God has a special place especially for sinners like you, a filthy, stinking, dirty pit with horrendous fire and smoke all around where you'll be awake and cognizant but you have to go through the intense torture and anguish by the vicious and most ferocious demons, where you'll suffer and yelp and regret and scream and screech and yell forever till the end of time!!," recounted by a religious leader who has all the qualities to land in the Heaven starting from extreme pride, enormous greed, horrid lust, despicable envy, intense gluttony, monstrous wrath, and exorbitant sloth.”
― Mohammed Israil