Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 13

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• Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

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  Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.90, Macmillan

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• Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

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  Pet, Way, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.21, Macmillan

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• Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

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  Reality, Thinking, Television Commercials

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

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• 'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

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  Wrinkles, Names, Wrinkle In Time

  "Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Unexpected Places". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1996.

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• I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Play

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• One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

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  Thinking, Intuition, Revolution

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.76, Convergent Books

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• What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

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  Children, Giving, Left

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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• I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

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  Twenties, Twelve, Three

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.169, Convergent Books

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• During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.

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  Husband, Children, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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  Art, Hard Work, Paris

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

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  Children, Book, Not Good Enough

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• Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

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  Long, Healthy, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

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  Artist, Judging

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

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  Rebel, Alive, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• To write for children at all is an act of faith.

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  Children, Writing, Literature

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• If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

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  Writing, Needs, Want

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

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  Children, Teaching, Facts

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• You learn to write by doing it.

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  Writing

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• You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

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  Regret, Future, Past

  Twitter post from Apr 29, 2011

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• Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

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  Laughter, Holy, Heal

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.57, Convergent Books

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• Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

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  Choices, Dare, Courses

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• 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.

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  Dream, Play, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.89, Open Road Media

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• The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

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  Children, Coercion, Way

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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• 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.

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  Dark, Silence, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.36, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Meg

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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