Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 7

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth. View quote
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The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. View quote
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That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better. View quote
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We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. View quote
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Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm. View quote
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I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. View quote
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Experiment is the mother of knowledge. View quote
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We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. View quote
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Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. View quote
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Wild nights are my glory! (Madeleine L'Engle)
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests. View quote
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink. View quote
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Sometimes I answer that if I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children. This is usually good for a slightly startled laugh, but it's perfectly true. View quote
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. View quote
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I endeavor To hold the I as one only for the cloud Of which I am a fragment, yet to which I'm vowed To be responsible. View quote
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The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it. View quote
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We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die. View quote
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Certainly that mild quip of the elderly man wouldn't shock anybody today. We might laugh appreciatively at his wit, but that would be the extent of our reaction. View quote
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You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour - write, write, write. View quote
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If our usual response to an annoying situation is a curse, we're likely to meet emergencies with a curse. In the little events of daily living we have the opportunity to condition our reflexes, which are built up out of ordinary things. And we learn to bless first of all by being blessed. (Madeleine L'Engle)
I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer. View quote
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Of course. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anyone else, I'd never start. View quote
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You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. View quote
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I wrote, after an early rejection, "X turned down Wrinkle, turned it down with one hand while saying that he loved it, but didn't quite dare to do it, as it really isn't classifiable. I know it isn't really classifiable, and am wondering if i'll have to go through the usual hell with this that I seem to go through with everything I write. But this book I'm sure of. If I've ever written a book that says how I feel about God and the universe, this is it. This is my psalm of praise... View quote
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