I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post- World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. Walter Dean Myers
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  1. Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
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  3. Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
  4. That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
  5. Reading is not optional.
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