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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."

"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."

"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."

"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."

"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."

"The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."

"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

"The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried."

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

"He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul."

"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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