It takes a lot of doing to die.
BETTY SMITHShe was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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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.
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No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.
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I get a heavy penance for something I couldn’t help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I’ll never be anything else.
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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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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
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I can never give a ‘yes’ or a ‘no.’ I don’t believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
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We’ll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory…let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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It’s come at last”, she thought, “the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
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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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…the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only – the something different from anyone else in the two families.
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But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
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As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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She liked the combined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
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I never listen to what people tell me and I can’t read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it’s wrong. If I feel good, it’s right.
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