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"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
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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."
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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
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