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If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's, " In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.Annie Dillard
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You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.Rebecca McNutt
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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
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I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?Ljupka Cvetanova
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Don’t be like so many writers, don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers, don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it.Charles Bukowski
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I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.Don Roff
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The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.Criss Jami
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I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do itMarianne Moore
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Oh, my God! " Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.John Kennedy Toole
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What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.Peter Jackson