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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
Explore more quotes by Beverly Cleary
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
"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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