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His intelligence was just something he'd been born with. Luck of the draw, like being beautiful. It was a rationalization to say that he'd worked hard. It was like being given a fine knife and taking the trouble to polish and sharpen it: it's great that you make the effort, but someone had to give you the knife.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman Beauty Hard Work Intelligence Rationalize

People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman Feminism Intelligence

If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman Fiction Success

He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman Attraction Fiction Love

When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman New York City Relationship Single Weekend

Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We submit ourselves to these intimate inspections and simultaneously inflict them on others and try to keep our psyches intact - to keep from becoming cold and callous - and we hope that at the end of it we wind up happier than our grandparents, who didn't spend this vast period of their lives, these prime years, so thoroughly alone, coldly and explicitly anatomized again and again.

~ Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman Dating Love The Love Affairs Of Nathaniel P
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