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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an...
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Old folks are the nation.Source: -- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You...
A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.Source: In...
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and...
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...
What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues....
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,...
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...
I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...
Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.Source:...
I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the...
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...
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