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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.