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Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents

by Lynne C. Leveque

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
― E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White

tags: nature

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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

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“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
― Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World

tags: humor, librarians, spelling

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