The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have realized… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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