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"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"
"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."
"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."
"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."
"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."
"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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