People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
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.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.