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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Remarks are not literature.Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.Source: In...
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.Source: Speech, 1960.-- Edith...
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.Source: Patterns of Culture,...
Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock. More about this quote
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...
You mischievous child! she cried, in great excitement. What are you thinking of? Why have you taken everything off?...
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...
She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your...
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my eyes and all is born again. More about this quote
Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.Source: Nightwood, 1937.-- Djuna...
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she...
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are...
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