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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.Source: Against Interpretation,...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...
The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so...
Lips that taste of tears, they sayAre the best for kissing.Source:...
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...
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and...
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.Source: The...
I like a look of Agony,Because I know it's true --Men do not sham Convulsion,Nor simulate, a Throe...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and...
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not...
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any...
When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of...
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. More about this quote
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but...
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,Love the reeling midnight through,For tomorrow we shall die! (But,...
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