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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to...
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...
Let us now bask under the spreading trees said Bernard in a passionate tone. Oh yes lets said Ethel and she opened her...
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. More about this quote
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.Source: Moredecai, in...
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48-- Jane...
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals...
The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of...
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb...
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. More about this quote
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.Source: In The Ultimate Success...
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.Source: Letter, 1874; in...
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From...
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America...
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