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"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"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."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"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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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."
"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."
"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."
"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
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