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My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt that he didn't quite know how to enjoy them. But I wasn't aware of those things then. So many of my childhood memories involve him. All the excursions into science were shaped by his knowledge and enthusiasm.


Robert F. Engle

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MADELEINE L'ENGLE Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?"

MADELEINE L'ENGLE Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you se...
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...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE 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.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE 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...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE 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.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE 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...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE when I’m mad I don’t have room to be scared.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Art must take reality by surprise.
F. SAGAN Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed ...
F. HAWES There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN To be human is to be imperfect. To be perfect is to be divine. To be divine is to ascend through dea...
CHARLES F To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
F. SAGAN If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
F. WIKZEK [But soon afterward, the decision blew up in Hillary's face. Breaking her habit, she read Newsweek t...
F. SCOTT Divergent thinking
F. SCOTT At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.
F. SAGAN A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
F. SAGAN