#genius

Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressive and come out of it and write, and enjoy writing and feeling as if I have a passion and excitement and love and euphoria for it and then I go 'back to sleep again' where I can eat and watch television and not work, not be productive and then just as if a magic switch is turned on I can do it all over again. I don't mind the being depressed part. Sometimes it seems to fuel me. The anger though is gone now that was there in my twenties and even earlier in my youth. Your voice is Tolstoy’s, Hemingway’s, Updike’s, Styron’s, Mcewan’s, Greene’s, Fugard’s, Kundera’s, Rilke’s while I am the incarnate of Radcliffe Hall crossing both genders effortlessly. You betray nothing. There is son in the picture. A small boy but you don’t introduce him to me. Obsessions are unhealthy creatures. They make you mentally ill, emotionally unstable; leave you with a chemistry of deep sadness in your life. I have my writing. It keeps me from disintegrating into fractions. I should stop now before I begin to make myself cry. ↗

— Abigail George

#catcher-in-the-rye #discontent #fragmented #genius-in-the-family #illness-and-hope

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#funny #funny-but-true #genius #geniuses #gift

Si percibo en otra persona nada más que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el núcleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#humanity #life #love #peace #art

Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#innovative #inspirational #quote #change

Genius is independent of situation. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#independent #situation

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man. ↗

— Glenn Close

#genius #just #man #merchant #most

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#genius #good #make #men #parts

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#better #beware #clearly #genius #inspiration

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#available #criterion #demand #found #genius

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#genius #lightning #like #resembles #sun