Lionel Shriver Quotes

Sure...the Boy Was Precocious. But Having Been Precocious Himself, Lowell Was Never Wowed By Teenagers Who Could Recite The Periodic Table Of Elements Or Whatever. He Was On To Them. Precocious Was Not The Same As Smart, Much Less The Same As Wise, And The Perfect Opposite Of Informed - Since The More You Prided Yourself On Knowing The Less You Listened And The Less You Learned. Worse, With Application Less Glibly Gifted Peers Often Caught Up With Or Overtook Prodigies By Early Adulthood, And Meanwhile The Kid To Whom Everything Came So Effortlessly Never Mastered The Grind Of Sheer Hard Work.

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