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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

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
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Cost Forgiveness Inspirational
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life–in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful–is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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Fullness Life Love Struggle
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 she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in.
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Beautiful Doors Library Past Place
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.
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Children Heart Intolerance War
It takes a lot of doing to die.
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Dies Doing Take
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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Character Children Teaching
What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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Between Grown Kept Stories Writing
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
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Brooklyn Dream Happen Real
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
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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Children Cities Important
A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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Children Want Forget never
Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe.
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Believe Children Imagination
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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Bad People Person Unlucky
As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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Gone Long Suffering
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.
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Inspirational Thanksgiving Time

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.

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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.

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