"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Genius, Ability

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Genius, Madness, Statesman

"The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

Phil Gramm, American Politician

Genius, People, Freedom

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Genius, Simplicity, Communication, Creativity

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Genius, Inspirational, Nature, Life

"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Genius, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Life

"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Genius, Expression, Man, Right

"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."

Margot Fonteyn, English Dancer

Genius, Inexplicable, Magic, Word

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

George Eliot, British Author

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"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

Society

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

Time

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."

Society

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

Life

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

Talent

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

Happiness

"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."

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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."

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"Western man is schizophrenic."

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

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"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."