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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...
There; how d'ye like that, eh? A liberal education in twelve volumes, with an index. More about this quote
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...
Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...
But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not...
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...
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...
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.Source: In The...
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...
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,...
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