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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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If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.Source: In...
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.Source:...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct...
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the...
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.Source: In Webster's...
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind...
. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined,...
Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. More about this quote
Because he spills his seed on the ground.Source: On naming her canary 'Onan';...
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.Source: Reflections...
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life . . . More about this quote
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