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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized...
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...
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...
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...
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.Source: Romola,...
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are...
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
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...
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...
. . . 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...
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and...
Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a...
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