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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. More about this quote
Everything has two sides --the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. More about this quote
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock. More about this quote
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less;...
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out...
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.Source: In...
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an...
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...
I am parshial [sic] to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would...
After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....
People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...
When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...
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...
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