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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.
Beverly Cleary
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Beverly Cleary
Age: 104 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 12
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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Beverly Atlee Cleary
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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.
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In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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I was an only child I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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