5 Quotes Tagged: pretentiousness

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lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays…

"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."

All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

5 Quotes Tagged: pretentiousness

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