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No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth ... — Isaac Asimov

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck — Hunter S. Thompson

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies

Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood. — Philip Larkin

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation. — Anna Julia Cooper

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. — Odilon Redon

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. — John Darnielle

What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ... — John Geddes

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. — Rufus Wainwright

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it. — Cristina Saralegui

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground. — Felix Baumgartner

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves. — Peter Beard

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? — Robert Schumann

The cat is a dilettante in fur. — Theophile Gautier

I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. — David Blackwell

Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased. — Vernor Vinge

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' — Ian Hacking

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. — George V. Higgins

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. — Zach Condon

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. — Adam Levine

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis — Joe Louis

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism. — Florence King

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. — Tony Dorsett

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. — Thomas F. Wilson

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. — Aleksandar Hemon

Only death can cure the hip dilettante. — Gilbert Sorrentino