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  1. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    ...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is such an excess that our artists will soon become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.
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  2. P.D. James _ Unnatural Causes

    What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...""What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh."Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.""A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.
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  3. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Valley of Fear

    Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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  4. Fulton J. Sheen _ Life of Christ

    To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.
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  5. Sarah Vowell _ Assassination Vacation

    A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster "genius or special talent," Noyes was delighted, replying, "We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo." You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
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  6. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."
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  7. Bryce Courtenay _ The Power of One

    Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.
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  8. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.
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  9. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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  10. Louisa May Alcott _ Little Women

    …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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  11. V.C. Andrews _ Petals on the Wind

    Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.
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  12. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.
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