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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.
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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Elaine Lobl Konigsburg
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Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again? And Grandpa Nate answered, Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
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Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
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Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
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Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
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Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
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Indecisiveness wears a person out.
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It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
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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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...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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Ninety percent of who you are is invisible. - Mrs. Zender
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True simplicity is elegant.
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I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
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Never have a long conversation with anyone who says between you and I.
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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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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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Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
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Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?
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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
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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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