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Betty Smith Quotes

Betty Smith quotes

American Novelist December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972

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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. 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. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "Oh time... time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer,..."
Oh time... time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first..."
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time...then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep..."
If I can fix every detail of this time in my mind, I can keep this moment always. Betty Smith
look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory Betty Smith
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She..."
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. Betty Smith
She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant? all..."
She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant? all in ten day? time. Betty Smith
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. Betty Smith
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? Betty Smith
People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind. Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the..."
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Betty Smith
Francie said nothing more. Katie knew that she was letting them down. But she couldn't help it, she just couldn't help it. Yes, she should go with them to lend the comfort and authority of her presence but she knew she couldn't stand the ordeal. Yet, they had to be vaccinated. Her being with them or somewhere else couldn't take that fact away. So why shouldn't one of the three be spared? Besides, she said to her conscience, it's a hard and bitter world. They've got to live in it. Let them get... Betty Smith
Betty Smith quote: "She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in..."
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it Betty Smith

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