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"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can."
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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 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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