Form Quote by Aleksandar Hemon Download Open image “We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.” — Aleksandar Hemon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Form Hated Hatred Pretentiousness Self Self hatred
“Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word “pretentious” as a weapon with which to… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred. — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“Pretentiousness shares with sophistication a lingering sense of “unnaturalness”; something faked, pretending, tampered with. Litvak presses the idea that sophistication is linked to perversion… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption is that… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“I soon understood self-hatred to mean an internalized, though not necessarily conscious, loathing of one's recognizable group markings that culminates either in quasi-pathological efforts… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance... What divides… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I want to change something. I want to stop the germs from attacking my daughters. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in the city, at all levels, horizontally and vertically - and that to me is a privilege, to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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