“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
“Sometimes I think,” he told Tex, “that Th’Wing thinks that I am an idiot studying hard to become a moron—but flunking the course.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Space Cadet
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 16 “P.R.S. Astarte”, p. 195
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