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As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.

Betty Smith

Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains – a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone – just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.
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Book Cigarette Contentment Little Read Strong Things
You won’t die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
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Born Dies Rotten
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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Memories Song Thinking
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been.
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Lie Lying Mean Something Story
Of course, I didn’t ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I’m glad it turned out that I’m both these things.
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Ask Catholic God Things Turned
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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Firsts Looks Perspective
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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People Quarrels Two
It’s a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don’t want to understand it all. It’s beautiful because it’s always a mystery.
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Beautiful Believe Jesus More Mystery
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Cost Forgiveness Inspirational
As long as one can suffer, one is living….live and suffer until life is gone.
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Gone Long Suffering
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
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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Anguish Compassion Suffering
As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.
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Book Candy Girl House Shadow
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get.
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Coffee Rain Something Strong
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
If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Pain Someone Suffering

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