It takes a lot of doing to die.
BETTY SMITH
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, “You have a bad case, a very bad case.” “Of what?” “Growing up.
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Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
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Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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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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I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life’s too short. If you ever find a man you love, don’t waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, ‘I love you. How about getting married?
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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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I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you’d give your life to spare them from.
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