"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."

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Source : George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

George Henry Lewes

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“But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.”
“I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.”
“I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.”
“Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.”
“There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.”
“And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”
“Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.”
“We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.”

Source : Speech at the Georgetown University, www.sahistory.org.za. January 27, 1987.

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