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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...
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Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.Source: Enormous...
. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...
One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.Source: The Second Sex,...
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred...
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.Source: In The...
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.Source: Pornography,...
. . . and we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there was only joy in the...
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...
I'll keep going till my face falls off.Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind...
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...
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