"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs."

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Source : Saturday Review, 5 Nov. 1904 See Maugham 11

Max Beerbohm

#Humility Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.”
“Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Certainly the goal with any sort of storytelling is to have an impact, to touch on some reader's life. And in some cases, there may be stories that actually have a particular goal like that in mind. So yeah, that sort of thing does happen in comics, fairly regularly.”
“I can write anywhere.”
“Just heard who made who by ac/dc and asked a ry what movie? He had no idea. Disappointed. He will be doing my laundry today.”
“I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.”
“No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.”
“To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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