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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

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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.

Source: Killers of the Dream, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1949.
-- Lillian Smith, (Dec 12 1897-1966), US novelist, educator; She wrote the popular novel Strange Fruit, 1944, which was banned in Boston.


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