"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull."

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Source : 1965 Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists.

Louis Auchincloss

#Genius Quotes #Dull Quotes #Danger Quotes

“Love does not seek equals; it creates them.”
“Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.”
“I'm very interested in Ben Affleck as Batman. I actually think he's a great choice.”
“I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Index investing outperforms active management year after year.”
“Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that part of the job will be left undone. But fit in we certainly do somehow, else we would not have a sense of our own responsibility. A purely materialistic philosophy is to me the height of unintelligence.”

Source : "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".
“And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the prettiest things he'd ever seen. ~Dallas and Amy~”
“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits,no matter how high they happen to be already.”

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