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> [“You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/you-had-to-be-fundamentally-stupid-i-sometimes-thought-to-become-the/)

[Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/)

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