I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

E.L. Konigsburg

Stichwörter: children-s-literature



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I've been the oldest child since before you were born

E.L. Konigsburg

Stichwörter: wisdom children siblings



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Flattery is as important a machine as the lever, isn't it, Saxonberg? Give it a proper place to rest, and it can move the world.

E.L. Konigsburg


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Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group. (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)

E.L. Konigsburg


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Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.

E.L. Konigsburg


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I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

E.L. Konigsburg


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By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

E.L. Konigsburg


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There's something nice and safe about having money.

E.L. Konigsburg


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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.

E.L. Konigsburg


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Oh, well,' Mrs. Zender continued, 'Mother always said that Mr. Zender had other talents. He was good looking, and I think Mother put looking good right up there with the harpsichord, an instrument that has limited performance time and requires a great deal of maintenance.

E.L. Konigsburg


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