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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

~Madeleine L'Engle

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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

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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 for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 29th, 1918

Died: September 6th, 2007

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