Friday, July 01, 2005

smith

"It's not better to die. Who wants to die? Everthing 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." (Betty Smith, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," p. 95)

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