"Even though I was a reluctant reader in……" — Matt de la Pena
"Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class."
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13 Quotes by Matt de la Pena
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby…
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless,…
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn…
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I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of…
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where…
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this…
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing.…
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But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment…
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power…
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended…
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments…
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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