There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
BETTY SMITHI need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
More Betty Smith Quotes
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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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It takes a lot of doing to die.
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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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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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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get.
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The world was hers for the reading.
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Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar.
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If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn.
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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.
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Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
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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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