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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but...
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...
I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...
I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...
Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing...
No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...
Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is...
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. More about this quote
I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...
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