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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...
Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....
. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined,...
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the...
[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.Source: Sentiment.-- Dorothy...
He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically,...
I only want enough to keep the body and soul apart.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.Source: Journal,...
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you...
. . . we as womenfolk can't, as i see it, be all that smug and satisfied about where we're at anyhow until the...
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off...
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. More about this quote
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