What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
BETTE GREENEWhat is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
BETTE GREENELike 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 GREENEThe world is not a rational place.
BETTE GREENEExperiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
BETTE GREENEI love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.
BETTE GREENEI believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
BETTE GREENEI was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?
BETTE GREENEA 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 GREENEAnd marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces-spaces you know can’t ever be filled.
BETTE GREENEWhat do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?
BETTE GREENELook inside yourself and you’ll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
BETTE GREENEEven 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 GREENEKeep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
BETTE GREENEWhy is it I’m always so quick to believe that people are thinking…believing the worst about me?
BETTE GREENEWhen people’s emotions are involved they don’t want to listen.
BETTE GREENEIt seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
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