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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success....
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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.Source: In The Ultimate Success...
After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. More about this quote...
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old...
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.Source: In...
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses; they run in...
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.Source: In The...
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from...
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the...
I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the...
The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things...
[The] world [is] in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions...
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.Source: Sula,...
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. More about this quote...
I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.Source: In...
The past lived in songs, the present in their flashing swords,and the future in their...
[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.Source:...
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