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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...
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Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the...
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. More about this quote
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...
Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .Source:...
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover...
Everything has two sides --the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. More about this quote
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...
Who knows where inspiration comes from? Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the...
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...
We seek him here, we seek him there,Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in heaven? - Is he in...
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. . . . because it is the stitch that makes a...
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. More about this quote
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and going to the grave, something else happens. More about this quote
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. More about this quote
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...
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