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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...
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The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also...
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening. More about this quote
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an...
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought. More about this quote
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.Source: From...
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. More about this quote
If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it...
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or...
Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great...
I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason. More about this quote
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of...
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist so long as she manages to also be a good wife,...
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for...
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