"And always, there was the magic of learning things."

--

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

Betty Smith

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
“I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.”
“Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.”
“This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.”
“Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.”
“I wish to live beacause life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.”
“There are very few really stark black and white stories.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". "CJR Daily" with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.
“I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.”

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