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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… — Karl Popper
- I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself… — Lucius Beebe
- In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius
- What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Chuck Palahniuk