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Story Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
- A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of…
- 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…
- When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which…
- The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the…
- Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human…
- 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…
- In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become…
- Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,…
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- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
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