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“There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“After all, it is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown, is it not?” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I knew I belonged to the Public and to the world, not because I was talented, or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots—provided only they be sincere—have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“almost every writer of fiction and poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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