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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also...
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No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.Source: -- Helen...
I can't write five words but that I change seven.Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.Source: Against Interpretation,...
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
This World is not Conclusion.A Sequel stands beyond--Invisible, as Music--But positive, as...
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.Source: Middlemarch,...
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.Source: Adam Bede.--...
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...
When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.Source: Starting from...
Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.Source: Starting from...
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...
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