"I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus."

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Beverly Cleary

#Big Sister Quotes #Pests Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.”
“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of CompiÃ¨gne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.”
“We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.”
“The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.”
“The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.”
“Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.”
“In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.”

Source : "Maxwell: The Outsider". Book by Tom Bower, 1988.
“In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.”

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