I Used To Think She Was Quite Intelligent, In My Stupidity.

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I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I
did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and
literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those
things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really
stupid or not. It tooks me years to find out...
-- from The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

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