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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...
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My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...
I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield,...
How could they tell?Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great...
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. More about this quote
I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.Source: On her bout with...
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...
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.Source: Daniel Deronda.--...
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may...
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Source: In...
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which...
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who...
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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