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"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
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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."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
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"Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."

"Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality."

"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."

"It's genius simmering, perhaps. I'll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn't genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer."

"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."

"Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."

"I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more."
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