"I mean it. There was something in you before. I don't know... a warmth, an openness,
a kindness that made everyone like you and like to have you around."
"Now, with all your intelligence and knowledge, there are differences that—" I couldn't let myself listen.
"What did you expect? Did you think I'd remain a docile pup, wagging my tail and licking the foot that kicks me?
Sure, all this has changed me and the way I think about myself.
I no longer have to take the kind of crap that people have been handing me all my life."
"People have not been bad to you." "What do you know about it?
Listen, the best of them have been smug and patronizing—using me to make themselves superior and secure in their own limitations.
Anyone can feel intelligent beside a moron." After I said it, I knew she was going to take it the wrong way.
"You put me in that category too, I suppose." "Don't be absurd. You know damned well I—"
"Of course, in a sense, I guess you're right. Next to you I am rather dull-witted.
Nowadays every time we see each other, after I leave you I go home with the miserable feeling that I'm slow and dense about everything.
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