63 Quotes About Conceited

  • Author Greg Egan
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    Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

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  • Author Dario Fo
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    I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.

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  • Author Michel Faber
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    Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

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  • Author Elliott Gould
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    There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

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