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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...
Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...
We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...
The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. More about this quote
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. More about this quote
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...
[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...
It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without...
It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our...
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...
It costs me never a stab nor squirmTo tread by chance upon a worm.'Aha, my little dear,' I say,'Your clan...
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...
He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...
I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.Source: In The Ultimate...
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