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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of...
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its...
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be...
A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down...
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more...
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.Source: The House in Paris,...
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Source: In The Speaker's...
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for...
Gardening is not a rational act.Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986-- Margaret...
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.Source: In The Speaker's...
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