"Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again."

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Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

Zora Neale Hurston

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“Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.”
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.”
“If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars”
“The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.”
“Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.”
“Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.”
“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
“My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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