Top 3 Pretentious Literary Quotes

#1. In twenty years, they'd have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers.

Lauren Groff

#2. Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.

Linda Grant

#3. When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Ira Glass

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