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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"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."
"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
Explore more quotes by Cyril Connolly
"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."
"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
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