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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with...
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. More about this quote
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. More about this quote
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.Source:...
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.Source: Quoted in:...
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. More about this quote
The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.Source: All This &...
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is...
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...
Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. More about this quote
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the...
A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...
I'm anal retentive. I'm a workaholic. I have insomnia. And I'm a control freak. That's why I'm not married. Who could...
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