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"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
Conscience
"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."
Love
"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"Every decision you make is a mistake."
Mistake
"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
Virtue
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."
Life
"It takes a long time to understand nothing."
Time
"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
Man
"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
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