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"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
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"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."
Time

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
Nature

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
Genius

"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
Friendship

"Writing is hard work and bad for the health."
Health

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
Humor

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
Complexity
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