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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and...
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...
. . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I...
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. More about this quote
The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board...
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone...
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. More about this quote
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.Source:...
I should like to be a horse.Source: When asked about her ambitions when a child;...
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed...
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear...
I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...
There is always a but in this imperfect world.Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,...
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once...
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...
Life, the permission to know death.Source: Nightwood/ 1937-- Djuna Barnes,...
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.Source:...
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