Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Quotes

• Al fin y al cabo, la precisión no es sólo una forma de responsabilidad y un tipo de placer, sino un instrumento de compasión. Ser preciso requiere cuidado, tiempo y atención a la persona, el lugar o el proceso que se describe.

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  Responsibility, Compassion, Attention

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.51, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

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  Mean, Names, Understanding

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.23, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

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  Book, Wells, Oneself

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• Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

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  Silencio

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

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  Choices, Challenges, Stories

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.132, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

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  Writing, Self, Imagination

  Marilyn R. Chandler, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (1990). “Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography”, Taylor & Francis

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• Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.

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  Children, Powerful, Home

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