Quotes
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E. L. Konigsburg

"The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home."

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.94, Pushkin Press

E. L. Konigsburg

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“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”
“I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.”
“God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope”

Source : Jill Briscoe (2010). “8 Choices That Will Change a Woman's Life”, p.131, Simon and Schuster
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