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Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned. -- Richelle Mead
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -- Cesare Pavese
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. -- Howard Thurman
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't. -- Frank Rich
Masquerade' is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny's Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me. -- Wyclef Jean
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade. -- John Dryden
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. -- Jim Butcher
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades. -- Olga Broumas
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. -- Walter Lippmann
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. -- Jodi Picoult
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony. -- Mark Sheppard
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. -- Alexander Pope
Message boards are like going to a Halloween masquerade party. Everybody has a screen name. -- John Mackey
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. -- Julie Burchill
Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades. -- Isak Dinesen
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. -- Paul de Man
Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it. -- Michelle Black
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face. -- James Hillman
You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems. -- Wyclef Jean
We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse. -- Karen Mills
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! -- Jerry Smith
I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective. -- Brian Lamb
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism -- Gad Saad
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception. -- Freda Adler
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept. -- Sarah Hall
A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes... -- Joy Williams
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends. -- Vikas Swarup
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. -- Germaine Greer
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones. -- Nate Silver
The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne -- John Wayne
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. -- K. Hari Kumar
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen. -- Henry Cloud
Maybe I should ask Awkward if it wanted to go to the masquerade with me since lately we seemed to be spending so much time together. -- Sariah Wilson
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade. -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that masquerade as reality in our cultural and religious institutions. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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