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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
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It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
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The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
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As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
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If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
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Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
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Youth is a mortal wound.
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Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.
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I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to be told at that particular point in my life. And if I do this faithfully, clothing that idea in the flesh of human experience and setting it in a true place, the sound from my heart will resound in the reader's heart.
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