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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose...
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too...
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and...
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished...
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad...
Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill...
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make...
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration...
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with...
Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.Source:...
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...
I am worn to a raveling.Source: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901.-- Beatrix...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.Source: The House in Paris,...
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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...
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