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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.Source:...
One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already...
Excuse my dust.Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. More about this quote
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright be.Source: ...
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for...
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. More about this quote
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an...
The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...
Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you. More about this quote
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...
Art must take reality by surprise.Source: Writers at Work-- Francoise Sagan,...
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home it's only then...
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. More about this quote
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...
Youth is a mortal woundSource: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.-- Katherine Paterson,...
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening. More about this quote
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