"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

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"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."

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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

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"I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent."

Sam Waterston, American Actor

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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Art must take reality by surprise."

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"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."

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"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

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"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

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"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

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"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."

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"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."

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"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."

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