"The world was hers for the reading."
✒ #BettySmith, American novelist ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), #DOTD 17 January 1972. #Literature
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“The world was hers for the reading.”
✒️ #BettySmith, American novelist and playwright (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), was #BOTD 15 December 1896. #Literature
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The world was hers for the reading. - Betty Smith.
#quote #bettysmith #readingquote #worldofreading #readabook #writerlife
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‘The world was hers for the reading.’
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A bright bloom, spotted in a corner of Brittany — and a reminder of everything that opens up with a book.
#BettySmith #LiteraryQuotes #ReadersOfX #BooksAndBlooms #GreatExpectationsEducation
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2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 241: #UnAlberoCresceABrooklyn (in English #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn) by #BettySmith
Smith’s most famous #novel follows the #youth of #FrancieNolan, a girl who grows in #Brooklyn at the beginning of the #XXCentury and endures many #challenges but never losses #hope.
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2025 challenge: one #book a
Day 231: #DomaniAndràMeglio (in English #TomorrowWillBeBetter) by #BettySmith
#Adolescence and #youth but also life in the outskirts of #NewYork. #MargySimmons lives the disillusion of a failed #marriage while being crushed by the big city.
Yet, she still has #hope.
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"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is truly a gem, reminding us that reading is a lifeline. Every book has its own way for us to explore, and they are just similar to a new life to understand.
[🎨 Original art by Jessica Malony] 📚💙
#BookSky #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith #Fiction #ComingOfAge
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UNO HOTELとBetty Smithの夢のコラボ！デニムコンセプトルームオープン #岡山県 #玉野市 #UNO_HOTEL #BettySmith #デニムコンセプトルーム
岡山県玉野市のUNO HOTELがBetty Smithとのコラボによるデニムコンセプトルームを展開。地元文化を肌で感じる特別な滞在を楽しめます。
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"The world was hers for the reading."
✒ #BettySmith, American novelist ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), #DOTD 17 January 1972. #Literature
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No, she never fumbled. When she used her beautifully shaped but worn-looking hands, she used them with surety. When she spoke, she spoke truly with the plain right words. And her thoughts walked in a clear uncompromising line. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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Oh, what's so fine, dear,
As a day of sunshine.
The storm is past at last.
The sky is blue and clear. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heart-breaking reality. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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The heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing - was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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He gave his lines right and she picked up her cues happily and the stage directions were the smiles between the spoken lines. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but for yourself write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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And even though the sun is still bright, it is thin and doesn't give you warmth when it shines on you. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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...The child must have a secret world in which live things that were never were. It is necessary that she believe...Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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But she was like quicksilver. In spite of her terrifyingly frankness and overwhelming naïveté, he really knew nothing about her and he was tired of living with an enigma. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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A field of snowy white.
Hear the darkies singing soft and low.
I long there to be, for someone waits for me,
Down where the cotton blossoms blow. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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But he doesn't want to die. He wants to keep on living even though he's old and there's nothing to be happy about anymore. #ATreeGrowsinBrooklyn #BettySmith
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She does not say "good-bye" to the tenements or the tragedies but to the girl she once was, the illusions she once had, the life she once led. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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Her hands gentle the war. #ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn #BettySmith
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Bueno, ya han caído los primeros regalos lectores ☺️🥰🎅🏻📖
#WindandTruth #BettySmith
#NavidadLectora #MyChristmasBooks
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#merrychristmaseve to those who celebrate #Christmas ! I wrote an essay on the film adaptation of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn for @screenfishonline, which has a devastating Christmas scene, which you can find at the link below!
screenfish.net/a-tree-grows...
#christmasmovies #bettysmith
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