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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler

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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – Antonin Artaud

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Since when was genius found respectable? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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