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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A man must be sacrificed now and againTo provide for the next generation of men. More about this quote
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Heroic deeds, to use whatever dowerHeaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. More about this quote
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of...
I thought that spring must last forevermoreFor I was young and loved, and it was May. More about this quote
I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...
I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road,...
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself...
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.Source: letter to Mr....
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful...
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.Source: The...
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but...
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will:...
. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it...
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...
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