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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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But he that dares not grasp the thornShould never crave the rose.Source: The...
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One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything...
Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.Source: The...
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you...
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in...
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.Source: Black...
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.Source:...
It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my...
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...
Breed is stronger than pasture.Source: -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
Modern life is confusing no Ms take about it.Source: Explaining her preference for...
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.Source: --...
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty...
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