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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

- J. B. Priestley
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.