"She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much."

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Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

Betty Smith

#Girl Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.”
“This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.”
“People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.”

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“I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.”
“What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.”
“Love your life, live for the day”
“We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.”
“Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.”

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