pretentious

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a4b863f	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.	funny cellophane cellophane-wrap hokey humanitarian jesus-complex messiah-complex pretentious self-righteousness pretend see-through fake	Rebecca McNutt
edae8e2	"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."	literature writer poetry writing pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life poetic writing-advice write artistry poet	Annie Dillard
64012f4	"Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste."	pretentious	John Kennedy Toole
8295043	He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue. The chary dawn, the cold illucid world.	the-road pretentious morning	Cormac McCarthy

a4b863f

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.

funny cellophane cellophane-wrap hokey humanitarian jesus-complex messiah-complex pretentious self-righteousness pretend see-through fake

Rebecca McNutt

edae8e2

"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."

literature writer poetry writing pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life poetic writing-advice write artistry poet

Annie Dillard

64012f4

"Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste."

pretentious

John Kennedy Toole

8295043

He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue. The chary dawn, the cold illucid world.

the-road pretentious morning

Cormac McCarthy