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Carl Sandburg

"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."

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"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."

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

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"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."

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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."

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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

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

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