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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."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."
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Personal Development
"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Religions get lost as people do."
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"I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters."
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"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family
"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"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."
Family
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
Books
"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
Books
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all."
Writing
"What interests me is what children go through while growing up."
Family
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Friendship
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