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1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
“The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.”
“How do we teach a child — our own, or those in a classroom — to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have — or need — answers.”
“We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.”
“All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.”
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A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to rescue the Murrys' father and fight The Black Thing that has intruded into several worlds.
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