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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. . . . because it is the stitch that makes a...
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The stitch of a book is its words.Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.Source: Uncle Tom's...
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very, very...
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.Source: In Words...
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my...
He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of...
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...
You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...
General notions are generally wrong.Source: From an Internet collection of...
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and...
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.Source: In...
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in...
Canada was built on dead beavers.Source: National Public Radio Interview/...
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...
[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. More about this quote
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