"Yeah, well, sure, 'remarkably intelligent'. Look, baby, the world is crawling with these… — Richard Yates
"Yeah, well, sure, 'remarkably intelligent'. Look, baby, the world is crawling with these diamond-in-the-rough types, these salt-of-the-earth characters, and they're all remarkably intelligent. My God, I knew half-literate guys in the Army who could scare the shit out of you with their intelligence."
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