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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Beverly Cleary

I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Goes Internet Know Works
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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Mean Real Talent
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Book Mother Wise
I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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Children Giving Writing
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Boys Grief Humilation Perhaps Regret Turned
Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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Care Girl People
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Enjoy Thirds Writing
If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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Book Want Writing
Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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Book Helping Teacher
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Book Child Children
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Book Boys Friendship
We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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Father Mother People
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Childhood Known

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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