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  1. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
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  2. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.
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  3. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
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  4. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.
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  5. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered.
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  6. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.
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  7. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.
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