"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."

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Beverly Cleary

#Wise Quotes #Mother Quotes #Book Quotes

“A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.”
“Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.”
“You could make a feature about the world of tickling. You could include female ticklers and you could find out why people are ticklish, but I don't think it would be a great documentary, when you're spending 90 minutes just finding out about the physiology and psychology of tickling.”

Source : "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.
“If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.”
“Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.”
“Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom...”
“If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.”
“The minority yields to the majority!”

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