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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...
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When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.Source: Middlemarch,...
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.Source: Mr. Tulliver,...
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.Source: Against Interpretation,...
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also...
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- Too?Then there's a pair of us?Don't tell! they'd advertise...
How much can comeAnd much can go,And yet abide the world!Source: There...
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.Source: In The...
You breathe all the time you're sleep, but you aren't living. I mean living -- doing the things you want to do . . . ....
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.Source: Starting from...
I can't write five words but that I change seven.Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...
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