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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
"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."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves."
"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
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