"But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all."

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Source : Robert Harris (2010). “Archangel”, p.23, Random House

Robert Harris

#Clever Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being”
“The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?”
“...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
“I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.”
“Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.”
“The true test of a manâ€™s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”
“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.”

Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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