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>if you never risk being seen as pretentious, you'll never make anything interesting

do you agree or no?

>> No.8860968

yes and no

>> No.8860972

>>8860963
Its piss easy to be pretentious, takes no effort to anyone with half a brain.

>> No.8860994

Yes... You all agree.

>> No.8861007

Many pretentious teenagers grow into adults obsessed with not doing anything others would find pretentious. It's can be a pretty crippling form of self-censorship.

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>>8860963

the kind of guy who can never risk upsetting others when an ideological conversation springs up is the kind of guy who will never be truly interesting.

if you believe what you believe then speak it.

>> No.8861023

>>8860963
you can be modest and write anything you want. ego is a meme

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>>8861020
>if you believe what you believe then speak it.

WEW LAD

>> No.8861032

>>8861024

>i post a picture of lacan with no context as to why i posted it
>watch me arrogantly posture in a thread literally about pretentiousness

W E W - 2 - u

>> No.8861047

>>8861032
Nigga this is /lit/, I come here just to posture

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>>8861047

please be serious /lit/ is a board of smartness.

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>>8861056

>> No.8861177

>>8860963
The other option is be so autistically ironic that the type of people who worry about "pretentiousness" think it's all a big joke and you're super-self-aware, and only a few people actually engage with your work. The problem with this is that irony tends to ruin things completely.

>> No.8861275 [DELETED] 

No, there's plenty of good books that even their critics wouldn't call "pretentious."

>> No.8861282

If you're the sort of person who thinks about this at all you'll never write anything of value

>> No.8861388

It's simple. Just don't talk about your work until it's done. Then give conservative answers unless someone is genuinely interested.
Most pretensious teens are cringe cause they are all talk and it makes them look fake.