Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent…

James A. Baldwin
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Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. ✨ The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.
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Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. ✨ The Paris Review Interview (Issues 91-94, p. 77), 1984.

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