Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 11

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• There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

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  Character, Risk, Suffering

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• Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

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  Emotional, Upset, Theatre

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.171, Macmillan

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• I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

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  Art, Believe, Here I Am

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

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• It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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  Life, Important, Energy

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• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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  Art, Angel, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Severed Wasp: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

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  Hater, Hurt, Hate Me

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.396, Macmillan

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• Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

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  Rigidity

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• Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

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  May, Sin, Natural

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• To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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  Growing Up, Maturity, Alive

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2010

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• you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

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  Dirty, Walks

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Love is the one surprise.

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  Love Is, Surprise

  Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.206, WaterBrook

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• To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

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  Silence, Response, Refuse

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

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  Virtue, Grows, Humans

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2011

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• poets are born knowing the language of angels

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  Angel, Knowing, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.171, Macmillan

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• It was not an end, it was a beginging

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  Ends

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• And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

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  Love You, Mean, Loving You

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• An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

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  Artist, Long, Suffering

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.119, Convergent Books

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• We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

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  Grace, Suspicious

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2016

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• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

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  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

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• The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.

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  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

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  Father, Want, Want Him

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.137, Macmillan

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• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is . It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

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  Believe, Two, Trying

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

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  Real, Medieval, Crosses

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

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  Book, Writing, Stories

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• 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.

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  Children, Book, Writing

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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