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Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.”

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American writer, born on November 29, 1918, and died on September 6, 2007. Madeleine L'Engle is renowned for her science fiction and fantasy novels, with her most famous work being 'A Wrinkle in Time'. more

“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”

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Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.”

Writing Doe Inspiration

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.”

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Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?”

Needs Children Asks House Language Sleep Bears Filled Primaries Making Love

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.”

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Book:Camilla

Source: Camilla

“I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.”

Seems Very Good Suspects Good Marriage

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.”

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Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

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