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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
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REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of...
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of...
SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a...
URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest...
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.Source:...
WEDDING, n. A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing...
WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a...
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least...
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Life...
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to...
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...
It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions....
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false...
O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida,Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.Source:...
Thou madest man, he knows not why.Source: In Memoriam, Prologue-- Alfred, Lord...
Yes; I am proud, I must be proud to seeMen not afraid of God, afraid of me. More about this quote...
Then to Silvia let us singThat Silvia is excelling.She excels each mortal thingUpon the dull earth...
Once more the engine of her thoughts began:Source: Venus and Adonis, 367.--...
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