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What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite, ego strength, meaning (among other things) ordinary, Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.

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Joan Acocella

Joan Acocella

Born: April 13, 1945
Died: January 7, 2024 (aged 78)
Bio: Joan Acocella was an American journalist who was the dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She wrote several books on dance, literature, and psychology.
Known for:
  1. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (2007)
  2. Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism (2000)
  3. Creating Hysteria (1999)
  4. Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives (1977)
  5. Mark Morris (1993)

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