“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
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“I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”
"Words Are Easy, Books Are Not," interview with Bob Morris, The New York Times (1994-08-10), Late Edition, Section C, page 1, column 1.
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Context: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
