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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
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"Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another."

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Henry James Author
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"I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel"

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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”"

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Liz Murray Author and Speaker
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"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."

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Etta James Singer
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"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."

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Dana Gould Comedian
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"Every day is a gift. That said, I've gotten some pretty shitty gifts over the years."

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Andrei Tarkovsky Film Director, Screenwriter
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"Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities."

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