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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.Source: In Webster's...
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is...
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the...
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose...
[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. More about this quote
He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically,...
Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.Source: In...
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...
He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the...
Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...
Live with no time out.Source: All Said and Done, 1974.-- Simone de Beauvoir,...
The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...
If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by as if in a dream, why not? More about this quote
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the...
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.Source: In...
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.Source: Reflections...
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