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E L Konigsburg Quotes
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Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Good explanations are like bathing suits, darling; they are meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won’t risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you don’t want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I am convinced that not only do children need children’s books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people’s feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o’clock (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
The eyes are the windows of the soul... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see? (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I’m not sure that love and like aren’t like cats and dogs: One can’t grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I am convinced that not only do children need children’s books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I think it’s important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as ‘E.L.’ But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls’ school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing. (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
True simplicity is elegant (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Biding one’s time is a very different thing from patience (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
I’m not sure that love and like aren’t like cats and dogs: One can’t grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof (E L Konigsburg Quotes)
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