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What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

Walter Dean Myers

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Walter Dean Myers
Age: 76 †
Born: 1937
Born: August 12
Died: 2014
Died: July 1
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Walter Milton Myers
Sometimes
Stress
Trying
Deal
Life
Deals
People
Maybe
Wanted
Wells
Well
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If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
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Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
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Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
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What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
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We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.
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But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
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When I began to read, I began to exist
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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Each of us is born with a history already in place
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth The place for me and you I feel the sun Our life's just begun I know you feel it too
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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
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