But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things – or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.

Betty Smith
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  2. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3. Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. - Paul Celan

  4. To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal. - M. Clifford

  5. The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full. - Alice Walker

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  1. I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man...

  2. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

  3. Dear God, " she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry..have too much to eat. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Let me...

  4. Because, " explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things...

  5. 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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