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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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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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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?"
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
Jealousy
"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."
Art
"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
Talent
"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."
Life
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
Power
"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
Time
"Art must take reality by surprise."
Art
"Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."
Music
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
Love
"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."
People
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