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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of Cathedral...
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will...
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...
It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. More about this quote
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. More about this quote
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory...
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