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Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.

Betty Smith

Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm.
BETTY SMITH

Dream Liars Minute Prayer Sad Something
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 I see now, she thought, to see no more this way.
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Grieving Light Poignancy Rivers
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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Bad People Person Unlucky
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…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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Dream Pieces Sleep
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, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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Children Printed Reading Word
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Mother Son Wife
No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.
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Anybody Needs Someone Want
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
I’ll not punish you for having an imagination.
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Imagination Person Punish
You won’t die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
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Born Dies Rotten
A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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Children Want Forget never
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
What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read.
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Different Read Secret Start Writing
Well’ Francie decided, ‘I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life – and nothing else but’.
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Giving Headache Wells
Of course, I didn’t ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I’m glad it turned out that I’m both these things.
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Ask Catholic God Things Turned

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.

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