"I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck."

-- Corra May Harris

#Smart Quotes #Views Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.”
“I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.”
“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.”
“Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Spies”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“Well you know youâ€™re really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.”
“I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.”

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