Pretentiousness Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a… — Karl Popper
I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at… — Lucius Beebe
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred. — Aleksandar Hemon
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it… — E. M. Forster
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all… — Brenda Ueland
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all… — Haruki Murakami
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. — Rick Warren
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage.… — Chuck Palahniuk
Let go of your worries and fears, of your rage and jealousy, of your need to always be right and control others. Let go of… — Melchor Lim
We are open-minded but we are not trying to make everyone like us. We are just trying to raise some questions with the music and… — Daft Punk
I will never be heard for what I have to say. Why? People like cliches which I find a mediocre bore and I refuse to… — James Smith (me)

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