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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

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  Passengers, Drivers, Inaction

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• There's something nice and safe about having money.

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  Nice, Safe

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.84, Pushkin Press

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• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

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  Sarcastic, Rejection, Letters

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.79, Pushkin Press

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• Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

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  Life, Risk, Fool

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

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  Adventure, Secret, Different

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.101, Pushkin Press

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• Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

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  Excellence, Knows, Ifs

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• ...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

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  Halloween, Silly, Mean

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

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  Children, Kids, Acceptance

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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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• Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

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  Healthy, Vitamins, Dose

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.

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  Jobs, Beer, Men

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

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  Hurt, Silence, Sometimes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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