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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing."

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

"My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage."

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."
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