{"quotes":[{"text":"I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["funny","humorous","ironic","ostentatious","pretentious","show-off","witty"],"id":53162,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.","author":"T.J. Kirk","tags":["art","pretentious","pretentiousness"],"id":60346,"author_id":"T.J.+Kirk"},{"text":"Oh, my God!' Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. 'What an egregious insult to good taste.","author":"John Kennedy Toole","tags":["hilarious","pretentious"],"id":74631,"author_id":"John+Kennedy+Toole"},{"text":"I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it.","author":"Marianne Moore","tags":["disgust","poet","poets","pretention","pretentious","pretentiousness"],"id":76286,"author_id":"Marianne+Moore"},{"text":"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.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["altruism","cellophane","cellophane-wrap","fake","funny","hokey","humanitarian","jesus-complex","messiah-complex","pretend","pretentious","see-through","self-righteousness"],"id":170505,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.The libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.Don’t add to that.Don’t do it.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","boring","dull","pretentious","pretentiousness","self-love","writers","writing"],"id":171231,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","deliver","deliver-to-my-house","delivery","falsehood","funny","humorous","irony","my-right","pretentious","pretentious-people","quote","right","rights","sarcasm","saying"],"id":329863,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ability","appearance","being","clever","cleverness","height","humility","intelligence","pretentious","profound","skill","wit"],"id":367247,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.","author":"Peter Jackson","tags":["like","pretentious","pompous "],"id":400179,"author_id":"Peter+Jackson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["art","artistry","literature","poet","poetic","poetry","pretentious","pretentiousness","the-writing-life","write","writer","writing","writing-advice"],"id":475400,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}