Beverly Cleary Quotes

I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.

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I didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Rummage Sales
Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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Algebra Mean
I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Big Bigs Pests Sister
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Only Child Sister
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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Two
Children want to do what grownups do.

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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Children Want Grownups
She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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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
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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Ships Years

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