“It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.”

—  John S. Hall

August 19
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

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Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

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