Clever Quotes
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
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All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.
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Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
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You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
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I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
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Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
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If you're racist you're not that clever. I mean, you couldn't even figure out that we're all the f---ing same
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
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I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken.
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This is very clever; I wrote it myself.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
