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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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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."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."
"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
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