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“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”

Feels Important Youth Eternal Paris Dimwits

Book:The Last Enchantments

Source: The Last Enchantments

“I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.”

People Want Should Doe Able Belief Religious Wonderful Pursue Just Saying Wonderful Friends Dimwits

Author:George Meyer

“Years ago, before this estate was generously and unwillingly turned over to the crown, the lord here was a genuine dimwit. He had a minister stashed behind his throne to whisper clever things to say.”

Years Behinds Lord Years Ago Clever Genuine Ministers Crowns Thrones Estates Dimwits

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away surfaces, when you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.”

Source: Point Omega

“Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.”

Lord Broken Pants Leather Passengers Leather Pants Dimwits

Book:Bayou Moon

Source: Bayou Moon

“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”

Thinking Mean Dimwits

Book:The Mouse on the Mile

Source: The Mouse on the Mile

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“In like a dimwit, out like a light.”

Author:Walt Kelly