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Robert Lynd

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."

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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."

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"There is no off position on the genius switch."

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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

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"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

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"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

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"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
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"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
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"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
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"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
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