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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.