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Genius Sentences, Vol. 2

(Sentences for genius muses and those talking to them. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"You think you're smarter than me, but you're not. You're not even close."

"You really don't understand, do you? For all your analysis, you still don't understand human nature."

"Let me be blunt: I can see something you cannot."

"You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity."

"For a supposedly smart guy, you're making some bad decisions."

"How is it that you're always three steps ahead of everybody everywhere you go?"

"Were you an outstandingly brilliant child?"

"I'm right, of course. I always am."

"It's unusual for you to be wrong."

"Have you never been wrong?"

"You're a very intelligent man, but you seem to think that everybody around you is stupid."

"As long as you have known me, have I ever been the kind to play dumb?"

"For once, I think you're wrong."

"I've never met a man who's so right about things and so wrong about people."

"This is legwork. You need a donkey for that, and I'm a thoroughbred."

"Your father was smart. You're smarter."

"That's fascinating! How do you know so much about this?"

"I know I was right. I'm always right. What was I right about?"

"What a surprise to hear you admit the limits of your knowledge!"

"How did somebody as smart as you end up here?"

"Is it hard for you to admit you're wrong?"

"Is today the day you finally give me something remotely challenging to do?"

"Does it get boring being right all the time?"

"Your mind is quite extraordinary."

"I remember everything. Every single thing."

Well, Aren’t You Just a Real Sherlock Holmes? Sentences, Vol. 3

(Sentences for muses that have the uncanny ability to know things about those around them, as well as those that have to put up with this. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"It's about the puzzle, isn't it? That's why you do this."

"You always had a gift for seeing the truth in things."

"If you're good at reading people, it's mostly because you learnt as a child, trying to stay one step ahead of whatever tormented you."

"You have a very specific way of thinking about things."

"You're not as hard to read as you think."

"That trick you do - the way that you look at people - will you look at her and tell me what you see?"

"I would apologise for my analytical ambush, but I know I'll soon be apologising again and you'll tire of that eventually, so I have to consider using apologies sparingly."

"Ah, I've heard about your Sherlockian gifts. What gave me away?"

"Do you ever know something and don't know how you know it?"

"I'm right, of course. I always am."

"You really don't understand, do you? For all your analysis, you still don't understand human nature."

"I find the eyes to be the least reliable form of perception - unless, of course, they are my own."

"I know all about you. Everything there is to know, at least - which isn't much."

"Have you never been wrong?"

"How does anyone put up with you? You're very cocky with your theories, you know?"

"Everybody needs me. They just don't know it."

"Look, are you going to let me in on what you're thinking here?"

"Let me be blunt: I can see something you cannot."

"I promise you, if you carry a secret in my presence, you won't carry it for long."

"You're trying to distract me by giving me an interesting problem to solve."

"Do not fool yourself; you cannot lie to me."

"I pay lots of attention, but not in a wide-eyed, indiscriminate way."

"You have to know how to read a person. How they move, talk, dress. People are desperate to tell you who they are. Desperate to be seen."

"Has it never occurred to you that sometimes other people might have something valuable to offer?"

"How is it you seem to know more than I do?"

"It's not the clothes but the shoes that can tell you everything you need to know about a man."

"You can see the tiniest detail in a millimetre of flesh, and miss of mile of loneliness right in front of you."

"You see a lot, but are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself?"

Genius Sentences, Vol. 1

(Sentences for genius muses and those talking to them. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"Where the hell are you going with your mind?"

"They say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid at being unable to relate to anyone."

"You're far too clever for your own good."

"I can't tell you how relieved I am to know you're just as brilliant now as you ever were."

"Why are you asking this if you know it all anyway?"

"Maybe there are one or two things that I know that you don't."

"You hide behind your intelligence."

"Don't be smart. I'm the smart one."

"If you seem slow to me, can you imagine what real people are like?"

"Look, I know there's a thin line between genius and madness, but do we have to show everyone which side we're on?"

"Oh, you're really not as smart as I thought you were. I guess I gave you too much credit."

"For a genius, you can be remarkably thick."

"As you think you're so clever, perhaps you'd like to suggest your own answer to that question?"

"Your problem is that you think you're smarter than everyone else."

"You prove how clever you are on your own patch. This is mine."

"Genius doesn't mean you can treat people any way you want! It means shutting up and doing good work!"

"I'm living in a world of goldfish."

"They say you're a genius. Are you?"

"How can someone so smart be so stupid?"

"I suppose you think you're very clever."

"People tell me I'm not great when it comes to talking to people. You have no idea what it's like being smarter than everyone you know!"

"I won't insult your intelligence by explaining it to you."

"Everyone's so stupid. Even you."

"It is no easy thing for a great mind to contemplate a still greater one."

"You have what I would call forensic intuition developed to the point of genius."

"How hard do you find it, having to say 'I don't know'?"

"I'm smarter than everyone I meet. I know it's bad form to say that, but, in my case, it's a fact."

"No one ever talks about how exhausting it is to be right all the time."

"You're quite smart sometimes, aren't you?"

"You're a smart man. You could be anywhere doing anything. Why do you do this?"

"People don't like it when you're smart and you do things they don't understand."

"I can see the cogs whirring in your mind. How would it be to try an answer without calculation?"

"Sometimes genius is just hard work."

Well, Aren’t You Just a Real Sherlock Holmes? Sentences, Vol. 2

(Sentences for muses that have the uncanny ability to know things about those around them, as well as those that have to put up with this. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"You know what? I don't like this spooky thing where you always know what people did!"

"I'm not being modest. I'm really good at what I do."

"I know everything. It's almost always disappointing."

"It's fascinating, is it not? The language of non-verbal behaviour."

"Unless you have an IQ higher than mine, I'm not interested in what you think."

"I consider myself a fairly intelligent guy, but I'm not following you here."

"Liars often place objects between themselves and the person they're talking to."

"My mother always says I stick my nose in places it shouldn't belong."

"It's a real burden being right so often."

"I picked that up reading books. You should try it sometime."

"I don't presume to know everything about your life. Why do you think you can guess at mine?"

"There will be evidence, if you look for it."

"You have a marvellously convoluted mind!"

"I'm going to give you a little problem to test your powers of logical thinking."

"How was I ever supposed to figure all of this out?"

"People rarely notice things right in front of their eyes, don't you find?"

"It would be nice to spend just one day without you peeking inside my head!"

"I think you're jumping to a lot of conclusions."

"You’re doing that thing where you pretend to know more than everyone else in the world."

"I'm right and you know it."

"My facts are always correct."

"If you watch a man carefully, he'll tell you when to throw a punch."

"Must you always be such a smartass?"

"I thought you knew everything?"

"I'm not even going to pretend to know how you did what you did, but you were right."

"Despite the thousands of questions I have in my head right now, I'm going to bite my tongue."

"You're the modern Sherlock Holmes!"

"You know, you may be able to see everything, but sometimes you're completely blind!"

"Were you an outstandingly brilliant child?"

"Sometimes genius is just hard work."

"Everything they say about you is true!"

"I know I've behaved terribly, but a puzzle needed solving."

"The truth is, despite you're abilities, you're still just one man."

"Do you ever give that intuition of yours a rest?"

"Okay, you read me well enough, but why can I read you?"

"You came to me for answers. It's not my problem if they're not the ones you want."

Well, Aren’t You Just a Real Sherlock Holmes? Sentences, Vol. 1

(Sentences for muses that have the uncanny ability to know things about those around them, as well as those that have to put up with this. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"Is there no end to your talents?"

"That's quite enough. Nobody asked you to be observant."

"I hear things, see things, and gradually a picture forms."

"Once you rule out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true."

"You're not very observant, are you?"

"Do you always ask questions that you already know the answers to?"

"I'm smarter than everyone I meet. I know it's bad form to say that, but, in my case, it's a fact."

"You really do notice everything, don't you?"

"It's my business to know what others don't."

"You're every bit as perceptive as they say."

"I get instincts about people. I have an instinct about you."

"I won't insult your intelligence by explaining it to you."

"You have the intellectual tools to make simple deductions. Your failure to apply them in an energetic fashion is a constant source of befuddlement."

"For a genius, you can be remarkably thick."

"How hard do you find it, having to say 'I don't know'?"

"I remember everything. Every single thing."

"It hurts. All this. Everything I see, everything I hear, touch, smell. The conclusions that I'm able to draw, the things that are revealed to me."

"I've gone over all of your cases, and I don't see any signs of genius at all."

"You prove how clever you are on your own patch. This is mine."

"If you seem slow to me, can you imagine what real people are like?"

"I have a gift. I look at people and I see things."

"They say you're a genius. Are you?"

"Maybe there are one or two things that I know that you don't."

"I see everything; that is my curse."

"You have what I would call forensic intuition developed to the point of genius."

"Are you really suggesting what I think you are?"

"So, what happens now? Are you going to make deductions?"

"I don't like not knowing."

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