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I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
E. L. Konigsburg
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E. L. Konigsburg
Age: 83 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 10
Died: 2013
Died: April 19
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg
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A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
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Never have a long conversation with anyone who says between you and I.
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True simplicity is elegant.
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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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Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
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Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
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...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.
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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?
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Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
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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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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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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.
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