I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not.
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
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