Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill.
“Be England what she will With all her faults she is my country still.”
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
“A joke's a very serious thing.”
“If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.”
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.”
“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yieldin...”
“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”
“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”