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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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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” Essays, 1841

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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