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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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"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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"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."

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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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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

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"He has tongue of a writer."

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

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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

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

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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"

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