Quote by Gaston Bachelard
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard

Other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Children
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard

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Home
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

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Sleep
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Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison

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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. – Dick Cavett

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