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"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
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"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
"The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it."
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
"Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man."
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
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"If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us."
"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough."
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