Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Topic

Nature of love Power of love Love

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

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What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Nature of love Love

Author

Sinclair Lewis
Source
Elmer Gantry
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

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Another quote from 1942

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

Bing Crosby

White Christmas

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Christmas
Speaker
Bing Crosby

Author

Irving Berlin
Source
White Christmas
Medium
Song
Genre
Great American songbook
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

"White Christmas." Holiday Inn. Directed by Mark Sandrich, performed by Bing Crosby, Paramount Pictures, 1942.