"I just wrote about childhood as I had known it."

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Source : "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

Beverly Cleary

#Childhood Quotes

“Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?”
“His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.”
“Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“Sometimes there's no point in giving up.”

Source : "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.
“A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.”
“Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.”
“Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.”
“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.”

Source : "Mind is a Myth". Book by U. G. Krishnamurti. Ch. 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State, 1987.

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