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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation...
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Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow...
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,...
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.Source:...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
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...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do...
That curious social warp which obligates us most to impeach the validity of a woman's opinion at the points where it...
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...
Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves....
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and...
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...
The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,...
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