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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
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