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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.Source: Belle of the Nineties, film...
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Only the really plain people know about love the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they...
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. More about this quote
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...
It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to...
That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled...
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes...
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. More about this quote
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach...
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. More about this quote
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.Source: Moredecai, in...
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...
It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some...
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.Source:...
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...
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