41 Quotes About Pretentiousness
- Author Ashly Lorenzana
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To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.
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- Author Aleksandar Hemon
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We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
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- Author Marianne Moore
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I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
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- Author C. Wright Mills
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My conception stands opposed to social science as a set of bureaucratic techniques which inhibit social inquiry by ‘methodolocigal’ pretentions, which congest such work by obscurantist conceptions, or which trivialize it by concern with minor problems unconnected with publicly relevant issues.
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- Author Michael Crichton
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Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
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- Author Quentin S. Crisp
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There can be no such thing as “philosophical horror”, at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and an open mind, whereas the genre of horror demands certain conclusions in advance.
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- Author T.J. Kirk
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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.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Art should be pretentious. The place to be genuine is in one's relationships.
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