On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles. Katherine Paterson
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  1. Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
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  3. 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.
  4. Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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