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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."
"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."
"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
Explore more quotes by Clifton Fadiman
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
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