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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...
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Everything pays for growing tame.Source: You Are in Bear Country, The Long...
Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle...
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. More about this quote
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. More about this quote
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth...
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...
The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...
What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?Source: Her...
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...
Youth is a mortal woundSource: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.-- Katherine Paterson,...
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your...
I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...
People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...
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