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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Coercion. The unpardonable crime.Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. IV, Ch. 9, 1938.--...
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Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....
If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...
Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...
I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers, as written by...
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful...
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort...
The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it. More about this quote
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.Source: The...
Of two evils choose the prettier.Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's...
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. More about this quote
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.Source:...
I'ts true that it [writing] is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of...
[V]ery often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. . . . More about this quote
It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is...
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