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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.


Beverly Cleary


#just #learn #make #pleasure #reading

Children want to do what grownups do.


Beverly Cleary


#grownups #want

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


Beverly Cleary


#found #give #glad #hope #i

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


#burden #children #feel #grim #i

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


#bad time #because #been #child #children

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


#man #skill #strength #dreams

I rarely read children's books.


Beverly Cleary


#children #i #rarely #read

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


Beverly Cleary


#children #had #i #i think #interest

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.


Beverly Cleary


#children #hear #i #people #read

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.


Chris Cleave


#athletes #beaten #been #could #different






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