"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

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A. D. Posey, American Poet

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Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Mary MacLane, Canadian Writer

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"Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

May Sarton, American Poet

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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control."

"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

"Since when was genius found respectable?"

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."

"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."

"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."