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“Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.”

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Author:Anthony D. Williams

“What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?”

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Author:Anthony D. Williams

“I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)”

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Author:Ernest Rutherford

“You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.”

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Book:Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

“So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.”

Thinking Mean Clever

Author:Patrick Warburton

“People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.”

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Author:Rory Bremner

“And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.”

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Author:Russell Banks

“A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.”

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Author:Ty Burrell

“Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?”

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Author:Rob Delaney

“I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.”

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Author:Daisy Donovan

“I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.”

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Author:Natalie Dormer

“I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.”

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Author:Anne Enright

“While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.”

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Author:Charles Frazier

“The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.”

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Author:Ben Gibbard

“I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.”

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Author:Lisa Gardner

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Ayers

“A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.”

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Book:Foundation's Edge

Source: Foundation's Edge

“My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.”

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Author:C. Thomas Howell

“I really like clever men who challenge you.”

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Author:E. L. James

“The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.”

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Author:Plato

“The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.”

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Author:John Keegan

“I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.”

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Author:Marian Keyes