“The world attributes its misfortunes to the schemes and plottings of the very evil and powerful. I think stupidity is underestimated.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

"El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez."
Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 1978.

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El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez.

Citas de sus libros, Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito (1978)
Variant: "El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez."

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Argentine novelist 1914–1999

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