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"Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant."
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it."
"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."
"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
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"Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions."
"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
"How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?"
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
"The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things."
"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is-an intense form of thought."
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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