Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 15

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• anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

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  Mind, Helping

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

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  Art, Laughter, Giving Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

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• If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

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  Giving, Dies, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

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  Pain, Giving, Littles

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Only a fool is not afraid.

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  Fool, Not Afraid

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

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  Stakes

  "A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition".

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• In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

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  Believe, Writing, Lines

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• Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

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  Feet, Dignity, Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.20, Macmillan

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• With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

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  Able, Explanation, Humans

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Flower

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.65, Macmillan

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• But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

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  Moving, Home, Maturity

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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  Able, Wrinkle In Time, Knows

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• I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

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  Jobs, Worry, Able

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately.

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  Believe, Writing, Character

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.130, Open Road Media

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• Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

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  Tests, Joyful

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2016

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• Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

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  Compassion, Intellect, Feels

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2012

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• We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

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  Mother, Mind, Great Minds

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.

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  Stars, Butterfly, Harm

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• Wild nights are my glory!

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  Night, Glory, Wild Nights

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.26, Macmillan

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• This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

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  Goodbye, Firsts, Strange

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.7, Macmillan

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• An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

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  Laughter, Selfish, Real

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle (Section 1.10), 1972.

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• You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

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  Together

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.49, Macmillan

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• When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

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  Running, Listening, Being There

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1972.

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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, 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.

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  Thinking, Always Trying, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

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