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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
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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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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas."
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Explore more quotes by Harvey Keitel

"You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading."
Mother

"Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way."
People

"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle."
Life

"I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance."
People

"I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie."
Time

"I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film."
Thought

"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most."
Work

"Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music."
Music

"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right."
Father

"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
Experience
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