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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. More about this quote...
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call...
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.Source: La Chamade,...
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative...
Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established...
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. More about this quote...
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your...
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. More about this quote...
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you...
Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.Source: In NY Times, 28 Jul...
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.Source:...
Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time...
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of...
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this...
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.Source: Dominique, in A...
It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. More about this quote...
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