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Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
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Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.
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I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
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Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
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Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
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When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
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Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space — it makes connections.
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Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
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There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.
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It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
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I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
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Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
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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.
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After a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is 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.
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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.
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Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
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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.
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Just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
E. L. Konigsburg
Born:
February 10, 1930
Died:
April 19, 2013
(aged 83)
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