E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

E. L. Konigsburg

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

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• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

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• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

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• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

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• I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

  

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

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• I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

  

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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

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• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

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• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
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• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

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• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

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• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

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• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

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• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

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• I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

  

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• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  

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  • Important
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  • Book

• In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

  

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  • Computer
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  • Circles

• Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

  

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• There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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• Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Important
  • Story
  • End