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“This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.”
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And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.”
―
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth
“Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.”
― Table 21
― Table 21
“Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.”
― The Prague Cemetery
― The Prague Cemetery
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