No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. (Mark Haddon)

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Mark Haddon

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