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There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.