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Gore Vidal163
American writer 1925–2012Related quotes
“I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Statement for the Day of My Death"
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Context: The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
"Of Experiment and of the Genius of Discoveries," p. 37
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
Kathleen Winsor (1919–2003) American author
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1831)
