"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"

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Madeleine L'Engle

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.”
“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”

Source : "The Iron King". Book by Julie Kagawa, February 1, 2010.
“I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?”
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
“I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.”
“I love the church. And the church is flawed. I think it's important that the issues of justice become important to the church. A lot of these churches don't necessarily take on justice because it affects dollars that come in. We need to start and assess the areas that we're in and not be so obsessed with becoming this big, huge church where everybody's pointing at one leader! We all should be pointing at Jesus, and if that's true we got to get to a place where the people become important to us. It kills me! It hurts me! Jesus has set the example. It's very clear!”
“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”
“If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

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