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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...
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No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the...
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images. More about this quote
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.Source:...
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.Source: In...
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except...
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce...
Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation...
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.Source:...
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.Source: The Death of...
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.Source: Mary Crawford, in...
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. More about this quote
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
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