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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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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
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"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
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"One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius."
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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
Family
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"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."
Friendship
"I want to live quietly."
Want
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
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