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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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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....
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Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.Source: 1868; The Poems...
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...
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...
Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...
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...
Men seldom make passesAt girls who wear glasses.Source: News Item, Enough...
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the...
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...
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
This World is not Conclusion.A Sequel stands beyond--Invisible, as Music--But positive, as...
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second-rate.Source:...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.Source: Adam Bede.--...
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