John Steinbeck Quotes on Intelligence
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George:Lord knows you don't need no brains to buck barley. ('Buck' here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley.)
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Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. Ch.3, p.41
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He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself.