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"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."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."
"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."
"Be the person you would want to be friends with."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
"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."
"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."
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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