Fraudulence Quotes

“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon”
― David Carr, The Night of the Gun

“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

“He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting.

It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned.”
― Lee Goldberg, Mr. Monk in Outer Space

“It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.”
― Steven Magee

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Even coal shimmers in the light”
― Jocelyn Murray

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A career in divination either meant one weathered the fits and starts, or fashioned fail-safes for consistent results and became a fraud.”
― Leanna Renee Hieber, The Spectral City

“But they produced nothing but talk and at that not very good talk. A few like Slab actually did what they professed; turned out a tangible product. But again, what? Cheese Danishes.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“If it is too good to be free, it comes with a hidden price.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“A bad economy is not enough reason for one to resort to crime. If the economy of a country is not working, at least every sane individual in that country owns a brain that works.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions