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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir. ↗

— Kate Clinton

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Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I rarely read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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