Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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