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Betty Smith quotes: It's only your imagination makes it different. But that's all right, as long as it makes you feel so happy. It's only your imagination makes it different. But that's all right, as long as it makes you feel so happy.
Betty Smith quotes: ... the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge. ... the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.
Betty Smith quotes: Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
Betty Smith quotes: Eyes changed after they looked at new things. Eyes changed after they looked at new things.
Betty Smith quotes: Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife? Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
Betty Smith quotes: but her body was fuller. but her body was fuller.
Betty Smith quotes: Forgiveness," said Mary Rommely, "is a gift of high value. Yet its cost nothing. Forgiveness," said Mary Rommely, "is a gift of high value. Yet its cost nothing.
Betty Smith quotes: The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past. The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.
Betty Smith quotes: It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
Betty Smith quotes: They lived comfortably and it was a good life they had ... happy and full of small adventures.And they were so young and loved each other so much. They lived comfortably and it was a good life they had ... happy and full of small adventures.
And they were so young and loved each other so much.
Betty Smith quotes: Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.
Betty Smith quotes: Johnny was one for taking notions. He'd take a notion that life was too much for him and start drinking heavier to forget it. Johnny was one for taking notions. He'd take a notion that life was too much for him and start drinking heavier to forget it.
Betty Smith quotes: She was the books she read in the library. She was the books she read in the library.
Betty Smith quotes: If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always. If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always.
Betty Smith quotes: The tears stood in her eyes. The tears stood in her eyes.
Betty Smith quotes: 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.. 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..
Betty Smith quotes: Time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow. Time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow.
Betty Smith quotes: All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life it's in him to live. All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life it's in him to live.
Betty Smith quotes: 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.
Betty Smith quotes: The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life. The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
Betty Smith quotes: And always, there was the magic of learning things. And always, there was the magic of learning things.
Betty Smith quotes: He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality. Accordingly, He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality. Accordingly,
Betty Smith quotes: Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.
Betty Smith quotes: She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith quotes: She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated children anyhow. She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated children anyhow.
Betty Smith quotes: Neeley came home and he and Francie were sent out for the weekend meat. This was an important ritual and called for detail instructions by mama. Neeley came home and he and Francie were sent out for the weekend meat. This was an important ritual and called for detail instructions by mama.
Betty Smith quotes: I'm glad I got you! I'm glad I got you!
Betty Smith quotes: Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it. Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it.
Betty Smith quotes: We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.
Betty Smith quotes: A woman's hair is her mystery. A woman's hair is her mystery.
Betty Smith quotes: After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election. After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election.
Betty Smith quotes: Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
Betty Smith quotes: She grieved a while and her grief changed her. She grieved a while and her grief changed her.
Betty Smith quotes: Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet. Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.
Betty Smith quotes: A head pain caught her between the eyes at the taking in of such a wonderful sight. It was something to be remembered all her life A head pain caught her between the eyes at the taking in of such a wonderful sight. It was something to be remembered all her life
Betty Smith quotes: When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow.. When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow..
Betty Smith quotes: Poor people have a great passion for huge quantities of things. Poor people have a great passion for huge quantities of things.
Betty Smith quotes: 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 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
Betty Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Betty Smith quotes: Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie."On beer?""No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life. Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie.
"On beer?"
"No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.
Betty Smith quotes: If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
Betty Smith quotes: I'll not punish you for having an imagination. I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
Betty Smith quotes: It there's one thing certain, it's that we all have to get old someday. So get used to the idea as quickly as you can. It there's one thing certain, it's that we all have to get old someday. So get used to the idea as quickly as you can.
Betty Smith quotes: He was so graceful and handsome, so loving, so full of the grandness of just living, that Katie, watching him, thought she would die of being happy. He was so graceful and handsome, so loving, so full of the grandness of just living, that Katie, watching him, thought she would die of being happy.
Betty Smith quotes: An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.
Betty Smith quotes: No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me. No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.
Betty Smith quotes: Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick. Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.
Betty Smith quotes: Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
Betty Smith quotes: There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory.
Betty Smith quotes: As long as one can suffer, one is living ... live and suffer until life is gone. As long as one can suffer, one is living ... live and suffer until life is gone.
Betty Smith quotes: Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
Betty Smith quotes: And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
Betty Smith quotes: Katie! Don't nag! All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the life it's in him to live. Katie! Don't nag! All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the life it's in him to live.
Betty Smith quotes: I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable. I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
Betty Smith quotes: Nothing was changing. She was the one who was changing. Nothing was changing. She was the one who was changing.
Betty Smith quotes: Anything you say may be used against you. Anything you say may be used against you.
Betty Smith quotes: Oh time ... time, pass so that I forget!Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget. Oh time ... time, pass so that I forget!
Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.
Betty Smith quotes: Seems like I'm the most dissatisfied person in the whole world. Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful! Seems like I'm the most dissatisfied person in the whole world. Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
Betty Smith quotes: I wait for death with the courage I gained from living. I wait for death with the courage I gained from living.
Betty Smith quotes: But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
Betty Smith quotes: Mama never fumbles." No, Mama never fumbles." No,
Betty Smith quotes: If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them. If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
Betty Smith quotes: You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you. You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.
Betty Smith quotes: When night draws back the curtain,And pins it with a star,Remember you are still my friend,Though you may wander far When night draws back the curtain,
And pins it with a star,
Remember you are still my friend,
Though you may wander far
Betty Smith quotes: Oi! By me is so big the mouth, so my foot always goes in. Oi! By me is so big the mouth, so my foot always goes in.
Betty Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Betty Smith quotes: They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.
Betty Smith quotes: And she doesn't have to worry about me, either. I don't need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip - and this night. And she doesn't have to worry about me, either. I don't need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip - and this night.
Betty Smith quotes: Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood. Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
Betty Smith quotes: Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books. Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
Betty Smith quotes: Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them out of the grime and dirt.
Betty Smith quotes: Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.
Betty Smith quotes: Now my wandering days are over. It will be bliss to settle down. Bliss. There's a word, now. Bliss to love and to be loved. Now my wandering days are over. It will be bliss to settle down. Bliss. There's a word, now. Bliss to love and to be loved.
Betty Smith quotes: But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
Betty Smith quotes: Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself
Betty Smith quotes: The world was hers for the reading The world was hers for the reading
Betty Smith quotes: A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things. A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
Betty Smith quotes: Everything struggles to live. Everything struggles to live.
Betty Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Betty Smith quotes: Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either first time or last time.
Betty Smith quotes: You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life. You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
Betty Smith quotes: They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering Wes and soft fluttery voices. But they were all made out of thin invisible steel.
Betty Smith quotes: He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all.
Betty Smith quotes: You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be. You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.
Betty Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Betty Smith quotes: It takes a lot of doing to die. It takes a lot of doing to die.
Betty Smith quotes: Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
Betty Smith quotes: But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything you talked about could come true! But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything you talked about could come true!
Betty Smith quotes: The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made. The difference was that Flossie Gaddis was starved about men and Sissy was healthily hungry about them. And what a difference that made.
Betty Smith quotes: Tell the truth and write the story. Tell the truth and write the story.
Betty Smith quotes: Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick. Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick.
Betty Smith quotes: You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest. You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.
Betty Smith quotes: Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man. Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
Betty Smith quotes: From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
Betty Smith quotes: Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'. Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.
Betty Smith quotes: Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented? Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented?
Betty Smith quotes: New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say it's the most wonderful city in the world. New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say
it's the most wonderful city in the world.
Betty Smith quotes: But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce. But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things - or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.
Betty Smith quotes: I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't ... I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't ...

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