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Lillian Smith was a 19th-century American novelist. Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known for both her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). Smith was a White woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“The human heart does 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.”
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“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”
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“Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.”
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“When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.”
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“Faith is 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.”
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“When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.”
— Lillian Smith
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