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Margarita Engle

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MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
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Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
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The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...
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Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...
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It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
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The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
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Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
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Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be fre...
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You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Wha...
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Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
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when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
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There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
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You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
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Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
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Believing takes practice.
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Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
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At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
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A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
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Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
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