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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.Source:...
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires...
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.Source:...
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. More about this quote
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Source:...
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...
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 beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the...
There's something contagious about demanding freedom.Source: Sisterhood Is...
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind...
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...
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