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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...
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...
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. More about this quote
I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.Source: In W.O.W....
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
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...
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...
We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...
General notions are generally wrong.Source: From an Internet collection of...
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will...
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.Source: Daniel Deronda,...
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct...
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.-- George...
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
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