“Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.”
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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