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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . . More about this quote
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. More about this quote
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen...
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against...
One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Source: Emma,...
Be aware that rigidity imprisons.Source: -- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.Source: In Woman, 9 Apr...
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that...
I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for...
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.Source: Quoted by John Skow Time, 2 Jul...
. . . we as womenfolk can't, as i see it, be all that smug and satisfied about where we're at anyhow until the...
Love, like chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its...
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or...
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