E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

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• Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

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  Facts, Should, Deals

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• Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

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  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Hardest

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• Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

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  Thinking, Bridges, Space

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

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  People, Bird, Way

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

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  Home, Adventure, Vacation

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.94, Pushkin Press

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• Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

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  Journey, Goal, Prove

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.43, Pushkin Press

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

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  Happiness, Happy, Littles

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

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  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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• Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

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  Invisible, Ninety, Percent

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• Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

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  Fifteen, Planning, Minutes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

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  Waiting, Different, Different Things

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

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  Hug, Important

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.57, Pushkin Press

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• I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

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  Love, Hurt, Light

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

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  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

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  Thank You, Use, Sometimes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Throwing Shadows”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

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  Mistake, Successful, Risk

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

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  Differences, Friendly, Earth

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!

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  Writing, School, Bridges

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• Indecisiveness wears a person out.

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  Indecision, Indecisiveness, Persons

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

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  Hurt, Believe, Civilization

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

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  School, Character, Persons

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

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  School, Apples, Eating

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• True simplicity is elegant.

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  Simplicity, Elegant

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

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  Home, Tuna Fish, Nuts

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.77, Pushkin Press

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