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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."


"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."


"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."


"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."


"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."


"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."
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