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J. B. Priestley

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

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"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."

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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."

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"Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it."

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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