Betty Smith Quotes

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• I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
• 'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
• 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…
• 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…
• I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
• All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
• The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
• If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
• Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
• 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…
• She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part…
• No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.
• Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman…
• There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country,…
• Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.
• People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
• The world was hers for the reading.
• Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water…
• Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a…
• It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that…

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