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I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
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To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
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When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
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We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.
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Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.
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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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She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.
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If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.
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It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
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Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So
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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
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One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
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We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.
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Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
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Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
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If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
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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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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
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We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
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Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
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Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.
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Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
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Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
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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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Don't be afraid ... " We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."
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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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But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
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All of life is a story
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To grow upis to find
the small part you are playing
in the extraordinary drama
written by
somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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That's a sure way to tell about somebodythe way they play, or don't play, make-believe. — Madeleine L'Engle
She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
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To write for children at all is an act of faith.
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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
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We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
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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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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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There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
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I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
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Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.
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Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?
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Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.
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The artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
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In my dreams, I never have an age.
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Anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.
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There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
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Ach,' she heard someone saying, 'I left mein ceinture dans le shower ce morgen. Quelle dope ich bin!
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Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
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Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
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When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
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The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.
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Active happiness is not a common state. Active unhappiness is better than dull days. Katherine was seldom in an intermediate stage.
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Maybe we have to sin, to know ourselves human, faulty and flawed, before there is any possibility of greatness." - Nik
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That's quite something, to be loved by someone like Mrs Whatsit.
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
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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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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
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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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She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
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I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
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Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
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When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
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There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
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Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.
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Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
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Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
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Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves ...
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We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
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A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
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And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
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It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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Believing takes practice.
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The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
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As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
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Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't knowany of us. — Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When
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Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
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But I'm not patient!" cried Meg passionately. "I've never been patient!
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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.
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There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
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Meg's eyes were too bright. I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.
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A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
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You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
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Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
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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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Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
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