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Madeleine L Engle Inspirational Quotes (246)

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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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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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It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?
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I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, Here I am: compose me or write me or paint me and the job of the artist is to serve the work.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.
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The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.
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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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Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
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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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But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta
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Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
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If our lives are truly hid with Christ in God, the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
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I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
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Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
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Art is communication.
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You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
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Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
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our country in general assumes that the pursuit of happiness really means the pursuit of pleasure and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
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I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.
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The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.
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I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
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If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth
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To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.
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