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"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
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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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"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
Laughter
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Religion
"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
Talent
"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
Man
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
Love
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Government
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
History
"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
People
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
Life
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