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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."

"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."

"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."

"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

"When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends."

"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."
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