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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse...
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We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. More about this quote
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...
You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't...
For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.Source: Quoted by...
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.Source: Quoted...
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...
Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.Source: Balloons,...
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .Source: Harrington, ch....
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on...
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for...
[R]eappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are...
For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a...
I have to be seen to be believed.Source: In The Wall Street Journal, 21 Apr...
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day...
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. More about this quote
Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....
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