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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...
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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...
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.Source:...
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.Source: 1868; The Poems...
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate.Source:...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.Source: Southern...
I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...
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