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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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.Madeleine LEngle
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Madeleine LEngle
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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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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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
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