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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
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Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.Source: Patterns of Culture,...
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with...
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. More about this quote
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...
There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.Source: The...
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.Source:...
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...
We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed...
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.Source: In The...
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it...
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through...
I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. More about this quote
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...
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