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Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
Source: Walking on Water:...
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...
That's the way things come clear. All of the sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all...
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...
Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...
A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in...
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not...
The naked intellect is an extraordinary inaccurate instrument.
Source: A Wind in...
Be aware that rigidity imprisons.
Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...
No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle,...
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my...
When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...
I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers, as written by...
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...
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