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    Bret Easton Ellis‏Verified account @BretEastonEllis 7 Sep 2012

    "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know..." Ernest Hemingway.

    1:37 AM - 7 Sep 2012
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      1. MsEasy‏ @mseasy 12 Sep 2012
        Replying to @BretEastonEllis

        sadly this proves true. @BretEastonEllis @tommiesunshine "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know..." Ernest Hemingway.

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      1. Guillaume Cote‏ @guillaume__cote 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis @EVANMcKIE that's a bold statement. I feel intelligence/happiness can coexist. Guess I'm too happy to be smart. :)

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      1. Barbara Low‏ @blowart 13 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis

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      1. OneDayI'llBeThatGuy‏ @DSLikesIt 9 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis That is the most thoroughly ironic remark I have read in a year.

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      1. SofiaMJ‏ @SofiaMJ2 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis That's a way to set yourself up for feeling bad about something.

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      1. Lv‏ @manonretreat 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis and the question is.. better to be happy or to be intelligent?

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      1. Kate Horsley‏ @PaganNun 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis Being grateful for intelligence, one must not take it too seriously.

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      1. graham‏ @PervertConfess 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis intelligent=misery intelligent+no one buying your book= off the scale. And it's even free! http://amzn.to/Rse7G9 

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      1. James Scott Linville‏ @jslinville 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis ... and it was before the age of designer pharmacology.

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      2. James Scott Linville‏ @jslinville 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis Well, EH wrote it, but it was actually one of his characters who said it.

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      3. Jennifer Williams‏ @jennwilllove 12 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis Good to know @jslinville. Who? (I read this same quote as EH's & have it in my notes.Depresses me--- tho I find it true.)

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      1. Melissa Willets‏ @SpitupnSuburbs 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis I've always wondered if really happy people are just really unintelligent...this may be my fav quote ever. Thanks.

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      1. Paul Naude‏ @PaulClarity 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis spoken like a true depressive. I don't believe it. Shame obviously genetic. Poor Margeaux

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      1. Forgetting Soho‏ @forgettingsoho 7 Sep 2012
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        @BretEastonEllis Untrue platitude.

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