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No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.
Betty Smith
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Betty Smith
Age: 75 †
Born: 1896
Born: December 15
Died: 1972
Died: January 17
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Elisabeth Lillian Wehner
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This could be a whole life, she thought. You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
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The world was hers for the reading.
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As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
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But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
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There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
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She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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