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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.Source: Starting from...
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Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.Source:...
The Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind.Source: 1868; The Poems...
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...
Unto a broken heartNo other one may goWithout the high prerogativeItself hath suffered...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.Source: I Know Why...
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to...
My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walkedA song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost...
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. More about this quote
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one...
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.Source: Silas Marner, 1861-- George...
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.Source: In...
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. More about this quote
You breathe all the time you're sleep, but you aren't living. I mean living -- doing the things you want to do . . . ....
The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...
I was very sophisticated when I was 17. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was . . . I've been getting younger...
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...
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