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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights] More about this quote
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Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. More about this quote
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock. More about this quote
The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.Source: Dubious Honors,...
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...
Remarks are not literature.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
I want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.Source:...
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. More about this quote
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my...
. . . to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without...
She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. More about this quote
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