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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...
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You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.Source: Enormous...
. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...
One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.Source: The Second Sex,...
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...
Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us,...
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.Source: In The...
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...
Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.Source: Pornography,...
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought. More about this quote
He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...
It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...
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