"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

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“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“If you hate the war, thatâ€™s fine. But you should still support the troops. They donâ€™t get to pick where theyâ€™re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.”
“I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.”
“The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.”
“Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.”
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.”
“A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.”
“I brought the music out to L.A., and the producer Tommy LaPuma heard it and he said - "Man, I love it. Let's do it. Let's record it." I said, "Okay, where's the band?" He said, "We don't have a band. We want it to sound exactly like your demo." I said, "Well, I played all the instruments on the demo." You do that when you're making demos. You got your guitar, you got your sax. He said, "Well, I want it to sound just like that, so get all your instruments out here." So I ended up playing all the instruments.”

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