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And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces-spaces you know can’t ever be filled.

Bette Greene

Maybe…in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe…maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it’s a little like life. I mean it’s powerful going down and that doesn’t even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.
BETTE GREENE

Coffee Mean Powerful
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
BETTE GREENE

Believe Hate Love
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces-spaces you know can’t ever be filled.
BETTE GREENE

Counting Empty Space
Fun, like champagne bubbles, can’t completely fill you up.
BETTE GREENE

Bubbles Champagne Fun
What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
BETTE GREENE

Challenges Genius Giving
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
BETTE GREENE

Cruelty Incapable Men
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
BETTE GREENE

Everything Forget Giving Want
A person’s got to think, otherwise that person’s no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he’d know he was making a thousand children laugh.
BETTE GREENE

Children Inspiring Thinking
Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain’t no greater love in this here world than that.
BETTE GREENE

Men Wells World
Longevity can’t be the only test of love.
BETTE GREENE

Longevity Love Tests
I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?
BETTE GREENE

Mean Nose Writing
When people’s emotions are involved they don’t want to listen.
BETTE GREENE

Emotion People Want
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
BETTE GREENE

Book Hands Pain
Look inside yourself and you’ll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
BETTE GREENE

Looks World Writing
The world is not a rational place.
BETTE GREENE

Rational Reason World
I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
BETTE GREENE

Arkansas Mind Thinking

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