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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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