E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

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• Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

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  Facts, Should, Deals

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• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

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  Home, Adventure, Vacation

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.94, Pushkin Press

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• Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

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  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Hardest

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

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  Happiness, Happy, Littles

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

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  Passengers, Drivers, Inaction

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

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  Healthy, Vitamins, Dose

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

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  Thinking, Bridges, Space

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Eye, Soul, Looks

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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• Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

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  Journey, Goal, Prove

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.43, Pushkin Press

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• Indecisiveness wears a person out.

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  Indecision, Indecisiveness, Persons

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

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  People, Bird, Way

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

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  Hug, Important

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.57, Pushkin Press

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• Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

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  Life, Risk, Fool

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

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  Waiting, Different, Different Things

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

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  Fifteen, Planning, Minutes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

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  Color, Broken, Add

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

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  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?

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  Hurt, Silence, Sometimes

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

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  Children, Book, Past

  E. L. Konigsburg (1995). “Talktalk: a children's book author speaks to grown-ups”, Atheneum Books

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• By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

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  Mistake, Successful, Risk

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

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  Invisible, Ninety, Percent

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• True simplicity is elegant.

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  Simplicity, Elegant

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH!

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Writing, School, Bridges

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• Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Doe, Want, Waste

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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