James Howe Quotes

#1. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

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#2. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

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#3. What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?

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#4. There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

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#5. Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

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#6. Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

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#7. Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school
or the whole world even
than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

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#8. Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).

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#9. My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.

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#10. Why, if I were to believe what everyone says about me, I would think myself quite, quite ugly. But I don't believe everyone, you see ... I believe you because you are my friend. You think I'm beautiful, and so I am.
- The Old One

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#11. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

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#12. I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

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#13. Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.

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#14. Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not make you a baby, no matter what anyone says. There are times when people feel so bad that they can't express their feelings in words. At those times, crying helps.

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#15. But looking back on the next day, I can tell you that happy endings are possible, even in situations as fraught with complications as this one was.

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#16. You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

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#17. Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

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#18. A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. - Joe Bunch

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#19. Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing:
If I started that gay rights group,
I must be gay.
So if i start an animal rights group,
what does that make me?
A giraffe?

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#20. When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

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#21. Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don't. - Bobby Goodspeed

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#22. (Quoting Goethe
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

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#23. So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.

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#24. Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.

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#25. It doesn't matter how many times I've been called a name, it still hurts - and it still always comes as such a surprise that I never know how to respond. Or maybe I do, but I'm afraid.

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#26. Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

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#27. And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little ... worn at the edges.
- Teddy Bear

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#28. The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. - Bobby Goodspeed

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#29. When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

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#30. So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

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#31. Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

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#32. Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

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#33. I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

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#34. When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.

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#35. The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable.

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#36. You don't have to have a boyfriend
or a girlfriend to know love.
Just open up your heart and
let the world in. Your heart
is bigger than you can imagine,
and so is the world, and so,
granddaughter, are you.
- Addie's grandmother

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#37. I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

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#38. I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

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#39. Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word ... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

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#40. If getting is the key to your happiness your key will open few doors. If giving is the key to your happiness you will find few doors locked.

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#41. This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it - your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all.

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#42. Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "All the Boys Like Me, I'm so Popular I Could Die" Hobson.
Addie: Joe!

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