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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...
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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a...
Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that:...
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Source:...
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...
. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. More about this quote
How can you contrive to write so even?Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...
I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been;...
. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend...
Health has its science as well as disease. . .Source: Written with her sister...
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...
That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...
I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...
Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...
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...
Of Consciousness, her awful MateThe Soul cannot be rid --As easy the secreting herBehind the Eyes of...
Faith --is the Pierless BridgeSupporting what We seeUnto the Scene that We do not...
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