"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."

-- Beverly Cleary

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“I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.”
“You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!”
“I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.”
“Surviving is the only glory in war”

Source : "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.”
“I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.”
“Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.”

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