Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. -Janet Flanner

 

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.


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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

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By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Janet Flanner

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

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