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From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#age #around #bad #beat #five

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#days #even #evening #father #many

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#here #need #out #plucking #writers

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#i #i love #love #sophisticated #unnecessary

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#compassion #contradictions #duty #fall #i

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#because #behavior #fascinated #feeds #human

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #childhood #give #i #i can

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. ↗

— Alice Walker

#because #become #enlightened #leads #self-knowledge

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #chance #could #down #get