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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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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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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."
"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."
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."
"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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