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• If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Girl, Stupid, Don't Give Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

  Michel Faber

  Real, Character, Writing

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• If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Men, Names

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.131, e-artnow

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• Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

  William Saroyan

  Sometimes, Imbecility, Loaded

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loss

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.444, GENERAL PRESS

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• Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stupid, Alternatives, Humans

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• My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Misunderstood, Needs, Peers

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• A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

  Rumi

  Wine, Men, Skulls

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Civilization, Progress, Agitation

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds children, by far, much more pleasant and intelligent than most adults, but they are easily ruined by their families, schools, and society. He says one of the ways they are ruined is by being forced to think of all the tasks that need to be done as work, not as play. It takes the joy out of living.

  William Wharton

  Children, School, Thinking

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• Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Writing, Mature Person

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Adults

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• Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

  Alan Watts

  Frustrated, Want, Facts

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• Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

  Obert Skye

  Mean, Fighting, Desperate Measures

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

  Grant Morrison

  Witty, Talking, Way

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• Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Four, Wheels

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• ...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

  John Flanagan

  Kings, Doe, Safe

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• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Men

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• Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  Gao Xingjian

  Baby, Men, Two

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

  Terry Pratchett

  Views, People, Humanity

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.212, Random House

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• There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nice, Ideas, People

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• He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.

  Jack London

  Dog, Feet, Movement

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.115, Lulu.com

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• The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, Sheep

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