Bette Greene Quotes

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• What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
• Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
• Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little…
• Longevity can't be the only test of love.
• Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
• I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?
• Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
• When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.
• I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
• Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who…
• What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?
• Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.
• Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this…
• It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
• Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
• And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.
• A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could…
• I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
• And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to…
• It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a…

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