Pretentiousness Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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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
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There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
— Glenway Wescott
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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
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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
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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
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Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
— Rick Warren
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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
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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
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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
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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)
Who Wrote These Pretentiousness Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Pretentiousness Quotes as follows: