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Beverly Cleary

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.
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Children Classroom Grade Lonely School
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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School Thinking Two
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children Growing Interest
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Before Grew Law Strict
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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Children Reading Teacher
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children Only Child Sister
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Book Children Grow Up
Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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Able Ideas World
In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Book Library Seventh
I read my books aloud before they were published.
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Books Publisher Read
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Knowledge Librarian Valuable
I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Ballerina Changed Mind
I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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Children Inspiring Mother
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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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Girl Interesting Waiting

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