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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

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"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."

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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."

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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

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"Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio."

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"He has tongue of a writer."

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

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

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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