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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Source: I Know Why...
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and...
Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...
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....
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.Source: 1868; The Poems...
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
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...
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.Source: Adam Bede.--...
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift...
I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the...
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...
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the...
Men seldom make passesAt girls who wear glasses.Source: News Item, Enough...
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