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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.Source:...
These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and...
There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels...
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.Source: On modern photojournalism; in...
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.Source: Sisters: Love & Rivalry...
In our defence of biology and its mystique we are blind to the dangers of power. Women as the guardians of children...
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill...
. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you...
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. More about this quote
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...
I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...
This life isn't bad for a first draft.Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like...
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