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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."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
Explore more quotes by Quentin Crisp
"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."
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