Madeleine L'Engle Quotes - Page 17

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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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• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

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  Chaos, Impossibility

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

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• Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

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  Writing, Half, Littles

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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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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  God, Believe, Names

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

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  Religious, Art, Real

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• To write for children at all is an act of faith.

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  Children, Writing, Literature

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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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  Rebel, Alive, Knows

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.21, Open Road Media

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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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• One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

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  Thinking, Intuition, Revolution

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.76, Convergent Books

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• The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

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  Children, Sleep, House

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

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  Craftsman, Dens, Prove

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.63, Macmillan

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• As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

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  Wall, Walls Have Ears, Ears

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• For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

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  Holy Ground, Light, Doors

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.40, Convergent Books

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• Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

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  Dream, Father, Eye

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.61, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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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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