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Been Quotes by Betty Smith
- 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…
- She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes…
- 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…
- 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…
- It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she…
- ...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something…
- A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour