pretentious

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

don__ be like so many writers,don__ be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don__ be dull and boring andpretentious, don__ be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don__ add to that.don__ do it.

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.

You__e not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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

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.

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

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.