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"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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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."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts."
Motivation
"She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement."
Fame
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."
Romance
"Character is plot, plot is character."
Writing
"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
Emotion
"Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen."
Creativity
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
Opinion
"Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees-he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
Wonder
"When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it."
Emotion
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