"A good artist must be good at many things."

Talent, Wisdom, Truth, Power

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"He has tongue of a writer."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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"Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos."

Family

"When in doubt," Calypso said, "Tater Tots."

Comfort

"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

Friendship

"It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape."

Humor

"Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions."

Horror

"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."

Recognition

"You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around."

Danger

"Please!' That word didn't make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. 'You're already dead,' Nico said. 'You're a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won't be sharing any secrets."

Justice

"He slung off his backpack. He'd managed to grab a lot of supplies at the Napa Bargain Mart: a portable GPS, duct tape, lighter, superglue, water bottle, camping roll, a Comfy Panda Pillow Pet (as seen on TV), and a Swiss army knife-pretty much every tool a modern demigod could want."

Survival

"And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!"

Danger