“[Mim to Nelson] "Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid."”
Rabbit Remembered (2000)
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes

“Careless is stupid, he snarled at himself, and stupid can be fatal.”
Source: The House that Jack Built (2001), Chapter 19 (p. 455)
“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
Source: Dragon Bones

"The White Diamond" (2004)

On the music of Giuseppe Verdi. Quoted in Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma by Joan Peyser, New York: Schirmer Books, 1976.

“Forgetting our intentions is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.”
II.206
Human, All Too Human (1878)