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"Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?"
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narcissism
pretentiousness
vanity
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Haruki Murakami |
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"I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood." --
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don-delillo
favorite-books
humor
jack-kerouac
pretension
pretentiousness
stephen-crane
thomas-pynchon
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Caroline Kepnes |
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"I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood."
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don-delillo
favorite-books
humor
jack-kerouac
pretension
pretentiousness
stephen-crane
thomas-pynchon
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Caroline Kepnes |
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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."
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artistry
literature
poet
poetic
poetry
pretentious
pretentiousness
the-writing-life
write
writer
writing
writing-advice
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Annie Dillard |
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All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?
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insults
kneecaps
last-unicorn
peter-s-beagle
pretentious-kneecaps
pretentiousness
schmendrick
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Peter S. Beagle |
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Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud.
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challenge
job
miserable
pretentiousness
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