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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Eternity -- waste of time.Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...
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Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.Source: Death Kit,...
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the...
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued. More about this quote
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married...
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling;...
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off...
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body...
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...
Art is a form of catharsis.Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
It's like meeting God without dying.Source: Of Orson Welles.-- Dorothy Parker,...
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.Source: In Webster's...
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. More about this quote
I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.Source: In...
If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more...
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. More about this quote
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