Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Eoin Colfer
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  1. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  2. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant

  3. It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein

  4. But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan

  5. For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born... - Robert Musil

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  2. Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

  3. It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

  4. If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

  5. No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

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