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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Madeleine L'Engle quotes

American Novelist November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007

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Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Wild nights are my glory!"
Wild nights are my glory! Madeleine L'Engle
We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential..."
...anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the..."
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. Madeleine L'Engle
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding. Madeleine L'Engle
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "People are more than just the way they look."
People are more than just the way they look. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we..."
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. Madeleine L'Engle
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will..."
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "To grow upis to findthe small part you are playingin the..."
To grow upis to findthe small part you are playingin the extraordinary drama written bysomebody else. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness,..."
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "And joy is always a promise."
And joy is always a promise. Madeleine L'Engle
In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet..."
You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. Madeleine L'Engle

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