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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I was thirty-seven when I went to work writing the column. I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social...
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again. More about this quote
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. More about this quote
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God...
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is...
. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined,...
I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace. More about this quote
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration,...
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to...
I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her...
Not to discover weakness isThe Artifice of strength.Source: 1865; The Poems of...
Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne'er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest...
Our visions begin with our desires.Source: In Black Women Writers at Work,...
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the...
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . . More about this quote
The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris,...
Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees...
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