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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...
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Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them...
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in...
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...
How can you contrive to write so even?Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...
Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.Source:...
The best way to fill time is to waste it.Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...
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...
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...
Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.Source: A Glass Eye...
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