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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for...
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That's all there is, there isn't any more.Source: Curtain call, 1904.-- Ethel...
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.Source: On not lying about...
[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out...
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.Source:...
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a...
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...
One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.Source: In The Ultimate Success...
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a...
It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...
Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...
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