A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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What are you trying to say, kid?
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l don't want you to come around here
no more.

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My minïs made up so don't try to
change

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it with any of that
soft talk of yours.

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Well, l won't Kate,
not if you mean it.

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But les keep on talking about you.
Sofs one thing, but harïs another.

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All right, it ain't nice to be hard.
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But my kids is gonna be somebody if
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l gotta turn into granite
rock to make 'em.

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Oh, l wish you hadn't said that, kid.
...Bye, Katie.

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and Nahal lived nine and twenty
years and begat Terra, and Nahal

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lived after he begat Terra a hundred
and nineteen years"

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Boy, thas older than Grandma,
ain't it?

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"and begat sons and daughters."
Okay, thas the end of the page.

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Troylis: And dreaming night will
hide our dreams no longer.

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l would not from thee.
Cressida; Night hath been too brief.

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Troylis: be shrew the witch with
venomous..."

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Oh, that ain't even English!
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lt is too. Shakespeare wrote the
best English of anybody.

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All right, you tell me what it means,
you're so smart.

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l didn't say l know what it means. l
said l liked it.

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Thall do.
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okay, but l bet you don't know what
it means either.

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Maybe not, but l do know is good
for you.

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"...be shrew the witch with venomous
white..."

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She don't know what it means, Mom
don't know what it means,

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Grandma can't even read, and gosh
knows, l don't know what it...

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Mama, l can't read if he...
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Just wasting time every night
reading stuff

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nobody knows what is all about.
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Now listen.
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Your Aunt Sissy brought that bible
all the way from Sheepshead Bay.

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And your Papa blew in all his tips
one time on that Shakespeare,

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cause Grandma said they was the
greatest books and you should read

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from them every night. So,
you ain't gonna waste 'em.

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l don't know, sometimes it does seem
kind of foolish.

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But it might get you somewhere.
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Might even get you a job someday.
Who can tell?

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This reading will not stop.
l say this thing.


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