A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
You learn to write by doing it.
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.
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.
Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
It was a dark and stormy night.
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.
To be alive is to be vulnerable.
What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
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