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I want to live for something. I don’t want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

Betty Smith

The world was hers for the reading.
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Book Inspirational Reading
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
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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Fake Horse People Wonderful
If you love someone, you’d rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Pain Someone Suffering
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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Dark Sun Water
In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
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Character Children Teaching
Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.
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Book Intimate Friends Mood
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
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in.
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Beautiful Doors Library Past Place
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
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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Liar Ragged Sincere Truthful
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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Other School Unattainable Worlds
She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking – was aching – was dancing -was heavy laden – that leaped for joy – that was heavy in sorrow – that turned over – that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.
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Dancing Heart Song
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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Anguish Compassion Suffering
She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie’s secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more…
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Bitter Dearly Despairing God Loved Quarries Stumbling Weeping

I want to live for something. I don’t want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

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I want to live for something. I don’t want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

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