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• No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

  Jeannette Walls

  Brave, Brian, Expected

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• ...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

  Daniel Keyes

  Sorry, Grateful, Second Chance

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• Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Humor

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• Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

  Jeannette Walls

  Baby, Children, Fun

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

  Mary Chase

  Mother, Years, World

  "Fictional character: Elwood P. Dowd". "Harvey", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1950.

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• I’m not, like, that smart.

  Paris Hilton

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• No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Daddy, Helping

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Boredom, Lust

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• It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Patience, Evil, Action

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.49, Penguin

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• You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

  Diana Rowland

  Agency, Purpose, Exam

  Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.321, Bantam

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• Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

  David Brin

  Successful, Self, Order

  David Brin (2009). “Earth”, p.193, Spectra

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• I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

  Heidi Julavits

  Children, People, Dresses

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• Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals!
  Postman: Uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Dog, Good Day, Animal

  "Fruits Basket". Season 1, Episode 2: "The Sohma Curse", www.imdb.com. July 12, 2001.

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• You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

  Junot Diaz

  Ghetto, Boys, Men

  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Book by Junot Diaz, ew.com. September 6, 2007.

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• I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Long, Office

  George W. Bush's remarks in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008.

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• Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain.

  Steven Pinker

  Makeup, Judging, Mind

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• All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

  Markus Zusak

  Arses, Ask Me, My Friends

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.7, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

  Wendell Berry

  People, Devil, Enough

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• When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.

  Rachel Vincent

  Children, Father, Sunshine

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.244, MIRA

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• The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

  Ian Caldwell

  Strong, Weak

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

  James A. Baldwin

  Running, Teaching, School

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• Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model," Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with," Gator rumbled. "Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

  Christine Feehan

  Fall, Boys, Offering

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• Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I don't mean the big fraternity party kind of movie. More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. I think something like that would be very good for him, especially if the girl were unconventionally beautiful. They are the best kind of girls, I think. I personally find 'super models' strange. I don't know why this is.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Girl, Brother

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern between external stimuli and stimuli from the imagination. It reacts equally viscerally to events from the imagination as it does to real events.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Real, Animal, Imagination

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Mistake, Kids

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

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