"I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock."

-- Beverly Cleary

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“I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.”
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
“To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.”
“One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”
“As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.”
“It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.”
“We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.”
“The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led.”

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