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Good Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every…
- I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while…
- I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is…
- A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good…
- It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under…
- It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called…
- I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the…
- you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
- Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both…
- When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are…
- If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
- A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
- 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.…
- My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better…
- what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of…
- I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do…
- our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.
- If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does…
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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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