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Thought Quotes by Betty Smith
- 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.
- 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…
- People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up;…
- 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…
- The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling…
- 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…
- It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
- It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold