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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides...
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...
Art must take reality by surprise.Source: Writers at Work-- Francoise Sagan,...
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. More about this quote
The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...
She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it.Source: Them, pt. 1 ch. 15,...
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very, very...
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong...
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...
[The] legitimate office [of the human face] is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of...
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a...
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that:...
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive...
In Reno [Nevada], there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of...
I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which...
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