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Paul Fleischman Books

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Paul Fleischman is an American writer renowned for his works in children's literature. His books are celebrated for their rich imagination and emotional depth, making them highly popular among readers.

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People Band Birds Clarinet Trombone Drum Trumpet Whirligig

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“Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've seen history out this window. So much. I was four when we moved here in 1919. The fruit-sellers' carts and coal wagons were pulled down the street by horses back then. I used to stand just here and watch the coal brought up by the handsome lad from Groza, the village my parents were born in. Gibb Street was mainly Rumanians back then. It was "Adio" - "Good-bye"- in all the shops when you left. Then the Rumanians started leaving. They weren't the first, or the last. This has always been a working-class neighborhood. It's like a cheap hotel - you stay until you've got enough money to leave.”

Ohio Cleveland Romanian

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“It was as big as a box kite and mounted on a pole, gesticulating wildly with moving arms, vanes, wheels, and propellers larger and small. I'd never seen it. It was all different colors. It didn't resemble anything in particular, except at the top, where there was a woman's head. Attached to her hair were three reflectors. Shells and chimes hung around her neck. Even with half the moving parts stuck, a gust blowing through it set off a flurry of fluttering and shimmering and ringing, as if a flock of exotic birds was taking flight.”

Shells Birds Chimes Symbol Kite Whirligig Reflectors Vanes

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“It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.”

Girl Orchestra Harp Whirligig

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“The whirligig featured a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a man with a trombone. It was a leap beyond the spouting whale, with more figures, a six-bladed propeller, and a much more complex system of rods and pivots that made the instruments dip and rise as if the musicians were marching.”

Musician Drummer Clarinet Trombone Marching Band Whale Propeller Trumpet Whirligig

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“The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.”

Music Band Rhythm Musicians Clarinet Trombone Drums Trumpet Whirligig

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“It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.”

Spray Whale Figure Whirligig Blowhole

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“The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.”

Humans Two Peace Human Beings Simple Existence Calm Two Things Torn Calm And Peace

Book:Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

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“Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.”

Radio Invisible Listeners Lurking Eavesdropping

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“You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.”

Knows Spring Canada Lakes Have Faith Springtime Cleveland Spring Poems April And Spring Spring Season March Poems Lake Erie

Author:Paul Fleischman

“A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.”

Mind Facts Memories Walking Gratitude Drug Garden Mad Ancient Appreciation Cures Cheer Thankfulness Trekking Cheerfulness Strolling Joyfulness Ancient Egyptian

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“That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.”

Home Earth Growing Development Essentials Expectations Garden Tragedy Surprise Forgotten Boring Tiny Circles Forests Opera Gardening Soap Soap Operas Sprouts

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“The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.”

Life Feels Eye America Friendship Known Millions Objects Benefits Garden Treats Neighbor Contact Relief Foe Crabs Crevice

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“Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.”

Mean Body Reality Awareness Mindfulness Ultimate Defined Incessant Vanishing Ultimate Reality

Book:Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

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“Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.”

Race Class Television Isolated Ethnicity

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“A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.”

Voice Thousand

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About the Author

Born: September 5, 1952
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 16

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