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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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We are still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons. More about this quote
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...
Judges don't age. Time decorates them.Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...
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 don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. More about this quote
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.Source: In...
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...
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.Source: The...
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...
Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...
My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.Source: The Earl...
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.Source: Dominique, in A...
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...
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