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The world was hers for the reading.

Betty Smith

I get a heavy penance for something I couldn’t help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I’ll never be anything else.
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Anything Else Penance Something
Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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Afternoon Beautiful Lovely Saturday Summer
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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Firsts Looks Perspective
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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Children Cities Important
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 had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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Other School Unattainable Worlds
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard.
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Children Mother Strong
She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.
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Eye Long Years
As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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Gone Long Suffering
Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
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Day Every Good Know Read Secret Some
I can never give a ‘yes’ or a ‘no.’ I don’t believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
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Believe Giving Monosyillable Settled
A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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Children Want Forget never
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.
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Memories Song Thinking
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
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Kind Live Life
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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Lonely Reading World
She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.
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Believing Start Starting Ugly World
The world was hers for the reading.
BETTY SMITH

Book Inspirational Reading

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