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Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’

Betty Smith

This could be a whole life,” she thought. “You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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Eight People Sleep
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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Lonely Reading World
No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.
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Anybody Needs Someone Want
Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
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Beautiful Brooklyn Dear God
It doesn’t take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
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Firsts Long Nothing Writing
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
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Brooklyn Dream Happen Real
I’ll not punish you for having an imagination.
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Imagination Person Punish
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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Cost Forgiveness Inspirational
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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People Quarrels Two
It takes a lot of doing to die.
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Dies Doing Take
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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Much Self Too Trouble
Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Littles Men Wells
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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Fall Happiness Love
Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet.
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Beautiful Feet Long
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
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Firsts Looks Perspective
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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Book Lonely Reading
You won’t die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
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Born Dies Rotten
Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe.
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Believe Children Imagination
Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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Persons Rich Suffering
…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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Living Observing Reading Something Soul Two
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Mother Son Wife
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
And always, there was the magic of learning things.
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Always Learning Magic Things
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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Different Fingerprints God One Puts Things
If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Pain Someone 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
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

Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’

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