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He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 25
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Katrina Elizabeth DiCamillo
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I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.
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Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
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[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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Nobody ever learns anything.
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
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That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.
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