Quotes Tagged With :pretentiousness

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within....

We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This....

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.....

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to....

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed....

You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need....

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t....

July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always have....