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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.Source: Belle of the Nineties, film...
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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. More about this quote
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. More about this quote
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love...
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...
Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious...
. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.Source: Speech to...
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her --when, nine times out of...
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...
[S]o long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a...
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame...
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate.Source:...
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...
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