“Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.”
Lloyd Alexander book The Book of Three
Source: The Book of Three
“Betraying her class and origin with the heartbreaking openness Joelle's always viewed as either terribly stupid or terribly brave”
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest (1996)
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