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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily...
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I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man,...
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed...
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.Source: -- Mary...
. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.Source: In Words of...
Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment. More about this quote
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. More about this quote
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.Source: In The Ultimate...
One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. More about this quote
[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. More about this quote
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.Source: A Bolter and the...
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...
The stitch of a book is its words.Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...
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...
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