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the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.
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The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.
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Moses Come. When? Now. This way. I will guide you. Wait! Not so fast. Hurry. You. I said you. Who am I? Certainly I will be with thee. Is nothing, then, what it is? I had rather the rod had stayed a rod and not become a serpent. Come. Quickly. While the blast of my breath opens the sea. Stop. I'm thirsty. Drink water from this rock. But the rock moves on before us. Go with it and drink. I'm tired. Can't you stop for a while? You ha..
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And you, behind the footlight's lure, Kissing an actress on the stage, Will leave her presence there, I'm sure, As I my people on the page. And yet - I love you, darling, yet I sat with someone at a table And gloried in our minds that met As sometimes strangers' minds are able To leap the bounds of times and spaces And find, in sharing wine and bread And light in one another's faces And in the words that each has said An intercourse so inti..
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I do not think that it is naive to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance, rather than general, impersonal charities.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surround us or we light a candle to see by.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It's the knowing when that's important.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Pain is a partner I did not request; This is a dance I did not ask to join; whirled in a waltz when I would stop and rest, Jolted and jerked, I ache in bone and loin. Pain strives to hold me close in his embrace; If I resist and try to pull away His grasp grows tighter; closer comes his face; hotter his breath. If he is here to stay Then must I learn to dance this painful dance, Move to its rhythm, keep my lagging feet In time with his. Thu..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I like the name writing practices better than Creative Writing. As I have said, nobody can teach creative writing--run like mad from anybody who thinks he can. But one can teach practices, like finger exercises on the piano; one can share the tools of the trade, and what one has gleaned from the great writers: it is the great writers themselves who do the teaching, rather than the leader of a seminar. It doesn't take long for the gifted stu..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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imagination; it's their own world, the world of their daily life, and it's our loss that so many of us grow out of it. Probably this group here tonight is the least grown-out-of-it group that could be gathered together in one place, simply by the nature of our work. We, too, can understand how Alice could walk through the mirror into the country on the other side; how often have our children almost done this themselves? And we all understan..
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Just a moment," Mrs. Whatsit murmured, and appeared to calculate rapidly upon her fingers. She nodded triumphantly. "Exactly 2,379,152,497 years, 8 months and 3 days." --
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We don't know what things LOOK like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things ARE like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep.
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Sure, go ahead." Calvin fished in his pocket and pulled out a wad of folded paper. "As a matter of fact, I have some junk of mine to finish up. Math. That's one thing I have a hard time keeping up in. I'm okay on anything to do with words, but I don't do as well with numbers."
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Oh, my darling you are not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace."
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life
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My daughter, I am not a Mrs Whatsit, a Mrs Who, or a Mrs Which. Yes, Calvin has told me everything he could. I am a human being, and a very fallible one. But I agree with Calvin. We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT.
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You might call IT the Boss." Then Charles Wallace giggled, a giggle that was the most sinister sound Meg had ever heard. "IT sometimes calls ITself the Happiest Sadist."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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She screamed out... and whether it was to help him or for him to help her, she did not know.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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and it's a planet, dears, out on the edge of a little galaxy. You can be proud that it's done so well.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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If we knew ahead of time what was going to happen we'd be -- we'd be like the people on Camazotz, with no lives of our own, with everything all planned and done for us.
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Mrs Whatsit was surely no longer a Mrs Whatsit. She was a marble-white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse but at the same time completely unlike a horse, for from the magnificently modeled back sprang a nobly formed torso, arms, and a head resembling a man's, but a man with a perfection of dignity and virtue, an exaltation of joy such as Meg had never before seen. No, she thought, it's not like a Greek centaur. Not in the lea..
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Just relax and don't worry over things that needn't trouble you," Mrs Whatsit said."
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Don't worry about Charles Wallace, Meg," her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before he went away. "There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The lines of love cross time and space.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
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A village is very much like boarding school (I was in boarding schools for ten years, so I know whereof I talk): let any threat come from outside, and everybody, old and new, Republican and Democrat, white-collar worker or blue, will band together. Perhaps that is what our divided world needs now: a threat from outside. Certainly, as one good American said, if we do not hang together we will hang separately.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.
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sympathy
pain
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empathy
self-centeredness
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Don't be afraid to be afraid.
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The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The stars do not foretell, because what has not happened must be free to happen, as it will.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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I can't do it for love of God, like Tom Tallis, or for heaven's sake, as Mr. Frost said. But because I love people I have to act according to it--to the fact that I love them.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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There's something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon's knife.
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace."
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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We hear a lot about evangelism today and how the church must pay more attention to evangelism. But mostly evangelism is not what we tell people, unless what we tell is totally consistent with who we are. It is who we are that is going to make the difference. It is who we are that is going to show the love that brought us all into being, that cares for us all, now, and forever. If we do not have love in our hearts, our words of love with hav..
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