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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

Betty Smith

Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains – a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone – just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
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Book Cigarette Contentment Little Read Strong Things
Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
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Honorable Living Lost Sleep Something
Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
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Clearly Everything Tighter Turned
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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Children Printed Reading Word
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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People Quarrels Two
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
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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Lonely Reading World
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it’s flashing glory.
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Dark Sun Water
Sometimes I say I don’t believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I’m a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession,
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Believe Confession God Jesus Mass Once
Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
BETTY SMITH

Book Crosswords People
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.
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Firsts Long Nothing Writing
As 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, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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Book Candy Girl House Shadow
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence.
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Consequences Liars Writing Years
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.
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Cities Country World
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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Anguish Compassion Suffering
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

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