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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. More about this quote
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.Source: Against Interpretation,...
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.Source: On Photography, The...
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.Source: The...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...
I like a look of Agony,Because I know it's true --Men do not sham Convulsion,Nor simulate, a Throe...
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal...
. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't...
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. More about this quote
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.Source: Starting from...
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...
I can't write five words but that I change seven.Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also...
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