"Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book."

-- Sid Fleischman

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“Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.118
“The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.”
“I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.”
“I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness”
“The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”
“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.”
“I think it's OK to compose songs and sing them about questions that we don't have answers to yet.”
“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.”

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