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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.Source: Pride & Prejudice/...
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...
Life had taught hm that the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven. More about this quote
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence. More about this quote
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.Source: Romola, ch....
It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.Source: Mrs. Poyser,...
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.Source:...
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak....
Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I don't say she...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Source: I Know Why...
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,...
Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.Source: -- Helen...
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.Source: The Rubaiyat of a...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate.Source:...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
Each thought is a nail that is drivenIn structures that cannot decay;And the mansion at last will be...
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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