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"What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
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"I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead."
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"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
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"What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years."
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"What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them."
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