Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
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Benjamin Franklin
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Anonymous
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Mel Brooks
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By Erica Jong
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't...
I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
