Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity and malice were so tangled and so dense.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid–and I know they are–yet I won't be wiser?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought...
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C. Joybell C.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
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Laurence J. Peter
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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George Carlin
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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More Quotes By Edward St. Aubyn
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....
The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
