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I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase...more

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Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've ...more

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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

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Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas e...more

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I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, a...more

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How many great men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?

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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

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The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blu...more

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I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as s...more

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I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who t...more