The only thing we could do is acknowledge it or pretend it wasn't there. But what could we do that would be more powerful than what the Health Department already does?

It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Be careful who you pretend to be...people might actually start to believe it's who you really are.

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

[Michael Durant, who broke a leg and his back when his Black Hawk crashed, recalled in his 2003 memoir that as he recovered,] I had begun to really understand how much my comrades resented the actions of the Clinton administration, and their anger and bitterness over the refusal to provide us with the armor and the air support we needed. ... I wasn't going to stand on the White House lawn and make it appear that all was forgotten and forgiven, while my comrades were barely cold in their graves.