"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
"You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave."
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Source: Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.
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