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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any...
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to...
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in...
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's...
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,...
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.Source: The Carnal Myth, ch. 5...
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of...
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our...
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or...
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...
Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?Source: (Miss Miggs) Barnaby Rudge,...
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene,...
Can I unmoved see thee dyingOn a log,Expiring frog!Source: (Mrs Leo...
There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.Source: -- Mark...
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to...
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be...
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