Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 15

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

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  Men, Lost, Gentle

  Madeleine L'Engle (1983). “And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings”, Harold Shaw Pub

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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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• I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and
  say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Jobs, Writing

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• My protagonists, male and female, are me.

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  Males, Female, Protagonists

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

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  Hurt, Long, Made

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

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  Summer, Alive, Knows

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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• If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

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  Fate, Giving, Sock

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.89, Macmillan

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• The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
  matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

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  Character, Artist, Symphony

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

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• To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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  Alive, Vulnerable

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

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• We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

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  Stories, Shows, Turns

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Art is communication.

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  Art, Communication, Art Is

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.166, Convergent Books

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• You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

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  Hurt, Hard, Ifs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Joys of Love”, p.93, Macmillan

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• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

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  Art, Drug, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

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• The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

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  Thinking, Deep Thought, Answers

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2016

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• One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

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  Inspiring, Humble, Humility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Men, Forever

  Madeleine L'Engle (1978). “A Swiftly Tilting Planet”, p.158, Macmillan

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• I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

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  Machines, Answers, Kind

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.299, Macmillan

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• That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

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  Believe, Play, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2017

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• I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Essence, Drunk, Ontology

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• Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

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  Meg, Wrinkle In Time, Equal

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• We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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  Life, Way, Mature

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

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  Book, Writing, Hands

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• In my dreams, I never have an age.

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  Dream, Age

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2017

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• They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

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  Lonely, Space, Earth

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 25, 2016

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