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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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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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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."
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"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
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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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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune."
Fortune
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