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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with...
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan...
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. More about this quote
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. More about this quote
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...
Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.Source: The Fiery...
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...
The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling;...
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...
There are many victories worse than a defeat.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
It is never too late to be what you might have been.Source: In The World's Best...
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.Source: In An...
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of...
The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...
Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...
[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget...
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