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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
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Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.Source: The Murder...
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. More about this quote
Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really...
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. More about this quote
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.Source:...
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.Source: The House in Paris,...
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...
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