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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"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."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
"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."
"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
"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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