There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Creative impulse Stories Writing

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

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United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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Original Citation

De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

Another quote about Writing

Yeah, I try to leave out the parts that people skip.

Elmore Leonard

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Elmore Leonard
Language
English
Time
1985 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Leonard, Elmore. Spoken during Book-of-the-Month Club luncheon. Luncheon. c. 1985, USA.

Another quote from 1942

This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where the spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

Learned Hand

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Law and culture Politics is downstream of culture
Speaker
Learned Hand
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Hand, Learned. "The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization." 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 21 Nov. 1942, Boston, MA, USA.