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#genius

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There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity


Josh Stern


#humor

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.


Aberjhani


#charlie-parker #creativity #diamonds #genius #jazz-music

Maugham's success, in fact, lies a good deal less in what he positively does than in what he discreetly leaves undone. He gets the colors of life into his Charles Strickland, not by playing a powerful beam of light upon him, but by leaving him a bit out of focus--by constantly insisting, in the midst of every discussion of him, upon his pervasive mystery--in brief, by craftily making him appear, not as a commonplace, simple and completely understandable man, but as the half comprehended enigma that every genuine man of genius seems to all of us when we meet him in real life.


H.L. Mencken


#geniuses #life

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than from the faculty of transforming and transposing them. To heat a liquid with an electric lamp requires not the strongest lamp possible, but one of which the current can cease to illuminate, can be diverted so as to give heat instead of light. To mount the skies it is not necessary to have the most powerful of motors, one must have a motor which, instead of continuing to run along the earth's surface, intersecting with a vertical line the horizontal line which it began by following, is capable of converting its speed into lifting power. Similarly, the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is the most brilliant or their culture the most extensive, but those who have had the power, ceasing suddenly to live only for themselves, to transform their personality into a sort of mirror, in such a way that their life, however mediocre it may be socially and even, in a sense, intellectually, is reflected by it, genius consisting in reflecting power and not int he intrinsic quality of the scene reflected.


Marcel Proust


#genius #intellect #proust #seed #social

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.


Hank Azaria


#absolutely #another #broad #find #genius

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.


Honore de Balzac


#always #bears #cease #equal #genius

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.


Claire Messud


#biography

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.


Linda Blair


#billy #director #genius #i #i think

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.


Robert Blair


#genius #nature #speak

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.


Aneurin Bevan


#empty #flamboyant #genius #labels #luggage






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