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“I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
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"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
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“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
― The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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Amy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Amy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,026 books
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63 friends
1,782 books
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314 friends
3,560 books
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162 friends
915 books
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2,783 books
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125 friends
524 books
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60 friends
4,435 books
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103 friends
1,695 books
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124 friends
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