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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...
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Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.Source: In Webster's...
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts -- spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and...
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
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...
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...
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. More about this quote
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
Breed is stronger than pasture.Source: -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...
But he that dares not grasp the thornShould never crave the rose.Source: The...
I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything...
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but...
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them...
[W]riting is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names...
I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.Source: In 2,715...
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