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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.

Betty Smith

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

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And you must tell the child the legends I told you—as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people...

Betty Smith

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

Betty Smith

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

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