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Author: Bette Greene
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Bette Greene _ The Drowning of Stephan Jones
It's not really rewarding trying to fathom what people will think. Particularly people who have demonstrated a lifetime aversion to thinking.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
My deception was believed because it was built on a foundation of truth … Hitler's first layer is an undeniable truth, such as: The German workers are poor. The second layer is divided equally between flattery and truth: The German worker deserves to be prosperous. The third layer is fabrication: The Jews and the Communists and Jews have stolen what is rightfully yours.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
One thing you can say about him is that he's appreciative. He's just happy having someone to sit with.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
Sometimes when a person be thinking about one thing it don't mean they is mad about another thing.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
But you, Pearl, never liked anything once it was yours.
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Bette Greene _ Summer of My German Soldier
The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down.
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Bette Greene _ Morning Is a Long Time Coming
That's when I saw-cleary saw-that there was more than one mountain in my life. Some could be seen and some couldn't be, but just the same, they were all out there. All out there waiting for me.
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Bette Greene _ Morning Is a Long Time Coming
Longevity can't be the only test of love.
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Bette Greene _ Morning Is a Long Time Coming
But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?
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Bette Greene _ Morning Is a Long Time Coming
Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air."
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Bette Greene _ Morning Is a Long Time Coming
Maybe...in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe...maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.
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