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"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."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
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