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

Betty Smith

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“All of your quotes are getting on my nerves.”
“I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.”
“Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.”
“Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
“Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.”
“A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.”
“I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.”

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