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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
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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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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Politics
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
Road
"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
Fact
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
Ambition
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
Time
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
Time
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
Books
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Humor
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
Books
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
People
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