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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

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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And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.
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No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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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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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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I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.
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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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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.
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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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Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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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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We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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She had had the pain it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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It's come at last, she thought, the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
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All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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