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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences."

"A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much."

"Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist."
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"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 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."

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."

"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."

"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."
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