"Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius."

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George Gershwin

#Differences Quotes #Genius Quotes #Talent Quotes

“It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.”
“I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.”
“Listening to something is an act of surrender.”
“Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.”
“Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.”
“The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.”

Source : Charles Perrault (1942). “The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
“Botany is based on fixed genera.”
“He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.”

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