“He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.”

— Nicholas Sparks , book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 51
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

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American writer and novelist 1965

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

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Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“I’m OK with masks. I tell people, wear a mask. But just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Claimed about the coronavirus, as quoted by * 2020-10-16
FactChecking Trump’s Town Hall
Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Angelo Fichera, Jessica McDonald, Rem Rieder, Katie Busch, Eugene Kiely
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https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-trumps-town-hall/
2020, October 2020

“Even Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he robbed people.”

Ed Miliband (1969) British politician

During Miliband's response to the 2015 budget. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/03/budget-2015-full-text-of-ed-miliband-response/
2015

“The shot by [Andy] Bathgate nearly ripped my nose off. I told Toe [Blake] I would only return if I could wear the mask, so there was no choice. He never wanted me to wear the mask because he thought it would make me too complacent.”

Jacques Plante (1929–1986) Canadian ice hockey player

Plante refers to November 1, 1959, when he debuted the first practical goaltender mask.
Quoted in Kevin Shea, "One on One with Jacques Plante," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep197802.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2005-05-24)