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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...
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I can't write five words but that I change seven.Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...
One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally...
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.Source: 1868; The Poems...
Parting is all we know of heaven,And all we need of hell.Source: poem no....
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...
Money is always there, but the pockets change.Source: The Practical Cogitator,...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.Source:...
I believe in art that conceals art.Source: Starting From Scratch/ 1988-- Rita...
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. More about this quote
The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.Source: Romola, ch....
Men seldom make passesAt girls who wear glasses.Source: News Item, Enough...
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Source: I Know Why...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
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