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James A. Baldwin

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

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

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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"He has tongue of a writer."

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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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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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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."

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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."

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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."

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