“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.”
— Mervyn Peake, book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan
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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968Related quotes
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