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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...
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Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...
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 could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. More about this quote
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed...
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.Source: On The Group,, her 1963...
Judges don't age. Time decorates them.Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...
You want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer. More about this quote
Gardening is not a rational act.Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986-- Margaret...
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints...
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink,...
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience...
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