Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.