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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...
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A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a...
[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...
[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. More about this quote
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. More about this quote
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. More about this quote
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct...
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . . More about this quote
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen...
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.Source: A Bolter and the...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
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