Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 16

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• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

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  Teamwork, Jobs, Book

  "Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck". www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

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• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

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  Art, Creativity, Perfect

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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  Life, Wrinkle In Time, Stills

  Madeleine L’Engle (2014). “A Wrinklein Time Quintet”, p.40, Obelix Books

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• We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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  Thinking, Able, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.35, Convergent Books

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• Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

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  Mother, Experiments

  Madeleine L'Engle (2007). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.55, Penguin UK

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• We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

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  Philosophical, Looks, Temporal Things

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

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  Home, Vacation, Going Away

  Madeleine L'Engle (1960). “Meet the Austins”, Laurel Leaf

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• Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.

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  Light, Dancing, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “The Wrinkle in Time Quintet”, p.295, Macmillan

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• We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

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  Book, Light, Illumination

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.97, Convergent Books

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• Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

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  Psychics, New Years Resolution, Intuition

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.213, Macmillan

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• you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

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  Mind, Naked, Good Enough

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.181, Macmillan

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• That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

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  Food, People, Cooking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “The Moon by Night”, p.18, Macmillan

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• I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

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  Success, Art, Children

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

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  Unhappy, Sometimes, How To Be Happy

  Madeleine L'Engle, Linda Beech (1997). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Doe

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2011

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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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• 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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• 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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• What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

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  Business, Self, Talking

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

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• The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

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  Our World, Confusion, Shadow

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.152, Open Road Media

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• A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

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  Community, Quality

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.153, Open Road Media

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