#genius

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really. ↗

— Jude Law

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

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The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#country #full #genius #ireland #problem

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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