Why is it I’m always so quick to believe that people are thinking…believing the worst about me?
BETTE GREENEWhy is it I’m always so quick to believe that people are thinking…believing the worst about me?
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 GREENELongevity can’t be the only test of love.
BETTE GREENEI was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?
BETTE GREENEIt seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
BETTE GREENELook inside yourself and you’ll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
BETTE GREENEThe world is not a rational place.
BETTE GREENEWhat do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?
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 GREENEExperiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
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 GREENEFun, like champagne bubbles, can’t completely fill you up.
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 GREENEKeep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
BETTE GREENEWhat is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
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