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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. More about this quote
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I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.Source: On her...
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a...
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going. More about this quote
Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested...
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...
Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a...
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of...
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...
All autobiography is self-indulgent.Source: Myself When Young.-- Daphne...
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws...
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial...
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...
Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
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