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  1. Jonathan Franzen _ Purity

    {P}art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.
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  2. Bret Easton Ellis _ American Psycho

    This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with."
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  3. J.D. Salinger _ The Catcher in the Rye

    I'm not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it was, he was really stinking it up. He was putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes, and a lot of other very tricky stuff that gives me a pain in the ass. You should've heard the crowd, though, when he was finished. You would've puked. They went mad. They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes though I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. Anyway, when he was finished, and everybody was clapping their heads off, old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, humble bow. Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player. It was very phony-I mean him being such a big snob and all. In a funny way, though, I felt sort of sorry for him when he was finished. I don't even think he knows any more when he's playing right or not. It isn't all his fault. I partly blame all those dopes that clap their heads off-they'd foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance."
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  4. Martha Gellhorn _ The Face of War

    It is not easy to be the citizen of a Superpower, nor is it getting easier. I would feel isolated with my shame if I were not sure that I belong, among millions of Americans, to a perennial minority of the nation. The obstinate bleeding hearts who will never agree that might makes right and know if the end justifies the means, the end is worthless. Power corrupts, an old truism but why does it also make the powerful so stupid? Their power schemes become unstuck in time, at cruel cost to other; then the powerful put their stupid important heads together and invent the next similar schemes {written 1987}.
    book-quotewarstupiditypower-corrupts

  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Phoenix

    The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
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  6. Mark Haddon _ The Curious Incident of the

    And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
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  7. Mark Haddon _ The Curious Incident of the

    All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
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  8. Isabel Allende _ Maya's Notebook

    As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I'm not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What's done is done; I have to look ahead.
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  9. Gordon Korman _ One False Note

    For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
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  10. Jonathan Swift _ Abolishing Christianity and

    When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."{}"
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  11. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly was so-but not all the time, which obviously worried him, hence, the act. He preferred people to be puzzled rather than contemptuous.
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  12. Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Marriage Plot

    In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.
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