“The world was hers for the reading.”
Author detail
Born: Elisabeth Lillian Wehner, December 15, 1896, Brooklyn, New York, United States Died: January 17, 1972, Shelton, Connecticut, United States In her lifetime, Betty Smith penned and published a total of 4 best selling 20th Century novels ... **''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' (1943), ''Tomorrow Will Be Better'' (1947), ''Maggie-Now'' (1958), and ''Joy in the Morning'' (1963)**. Fairly soon after the publication of both ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' & ''Joy in the Morning,'' they were then adapted to the 'big screen.' What many of us were not aware of, however, is that for numerous decades prior to the penning and publication of these four, ***her only written novels,* Betty Smith was a well-known and respected play-write,** many plays of which she wrote with Robert (Bob) Finch, her 3rd and final husband. ***Below you will discover only a small few of her countless smash-hit plays.***
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“The world was hers for the reading.”
“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.”
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
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“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...”
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you w...”
“Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together; it should make them love and protect...”
“There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.”
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“Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?”
“A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it...”
“Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion...”
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. Th...”
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter ev...”
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“The library was a little old shabby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went i...”
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
“But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and bu...”