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André Breton

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Biography - André Breton :

French writer and poet.
Born: 1896 - Died: 1966
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.



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Quotes for: writing


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Quotes for: writing


Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





Thus, down to the time of Gutenberg, architecture is the principal writing, the universal writing.





A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.





It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.





For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.





I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.











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One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Words make love.





It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.





Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.





All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.





I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.












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