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Beverly Cleary

"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."

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"I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind."

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"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."

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"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do, our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."

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"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

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"My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone."

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"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."

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"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."

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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
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"I read my books aloud before they were published."
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"What interests me is what children go through while growing up."
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