Bette Greene - Summer of my German Soldier (1973)

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What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

Bette Greene

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

Bette Greene

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Bette Greene

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Bette Greene

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

Bette Greene

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Bette Greene

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Bette Greene