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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they...
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Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.Source: In Pearls of...
A man in the house is worth two in the street.Source: Belle of the Nineties, film...
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. More about this quote
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. More about this quote
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.Source:...
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...
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...
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...
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is...
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...
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...
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