"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to……" — Madeleine L'Engle
"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"
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324 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
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I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A…
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be…
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A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
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Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief.…
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To be born is to start the journey towards death.
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Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
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Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted…
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Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but…
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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of…
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When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation,…
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I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the…
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More Charles Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
— Lewis Black
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
— Eli Broad
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just…
— Ray Charles
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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