In the cold of a winter’s night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn’t be cold. You’d kill anyone who tried to harm the.
BETTY SMITHSuffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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I know that’s what people say– you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life–in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful–is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
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Well’ Francie decided, ‘I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life – and nothing else but’.
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life – the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way.
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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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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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I’ll not punish you for having an imagination.
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And that’s where the whole trouble is. We’re too much alike to understand each other because we don’t even understand our own selves.
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard.
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Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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I’ll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .
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