It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.


Margarita Engle

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Slavery all day,
and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!
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I can't understand
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and light ones
are seperated into di...
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Nothing brings men closer than a common misfortune happily overcome.
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You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.
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big tall, tasty, crushed-ice margarita.
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When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!
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This was a tough course with disaster lurking at every turn.
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So this is going to be drill!?
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It is a transitional name with a lot of support behind its plan.
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I am now faced with a terrible dilemma.
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MADELEINE L'ENGLE
For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...
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Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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 ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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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