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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"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."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
Explore more quotes by Clifton Fadiman
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"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."
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
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