Gaston Bachelard Quotes
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
Gaston Bachelard
Quotes to Explore
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
Laura Benanti
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
Salman Rushdie
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
Tabatha Coffey
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Tara Brach
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?
Brad Paisley
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Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.
Peter Frampton
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The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
Gaston Bachelard
