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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,...
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In...
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.Source: The Life I Really...
'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.Source: The Country of...
All my possessions for a moment of time.Source: Alleged last words.--...
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding...
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...
. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.Source: In The...
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...
A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.Source: In...
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?Source: Selected Works of Djuna...
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.Source: On Writing,...
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce...
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.Source: The Murder...
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. More about this quote
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