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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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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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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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