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Lillian Smith
American
Novelist
About the author
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Open
#Future
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Faith
#Doubt
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Years
#Man
#Woman
#Giving
#Protest
Rich folks always talk hard times.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Talk
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Belief
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Worth
#Flirting
#Zodiac
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Questions
#Listening
#Learning
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#World
#Experience
#Education
#School
#Knowledge
#College
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
Lillian Smith,
American
Novelist
#Hurt
#Heart
#Journey