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"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
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