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Sam Spade: You, eh, you aren’t exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you?
Brigid O’Shaughnessy: Why, I’m not sure I know exactly what you mean.
Spade: The schoolgirl manner. You know, blushing, stammering, and all that.
Brigid: I haven’t lived a good life. I’ve been bad. Worse than you can know.
Spade: Yeah, well that’s good. Because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere.
from The Maltese Falcon, 1941, directed by John Huston, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett
We all like to pretend. We did it more often when we were young…or at least we did it better then; we did it without any notion of self-consciousness. We still do it as adults. Sometimes we play pretend deliberately, overtly, just for fun. More often we do it quietly, habitually, because we believe it’s necessary.
We pretend to like our job. We pretend to believe in God…or not to believe in God. We pretend we are informed voters. We pretend we’re heterosexual. We pretend we’re still young enough to wear those clothes. We pretend to have seen that movie, read that book, eaten in that restaurant. We pretend to believe that other people aren’t pretending.
Yeah, well that’s good. Because if we actually were as innocent as we pretend to be, we’d never get anywhere.
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