Sunday, October 30, 2011

Let me be something


“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm.
Let me be hungry...have too much to eat.
Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful.
Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin.
Only let me be something every blessed minute.
And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”


- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn



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