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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
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