"I had hundreds of books under my skin……" — Zora Neale Hurston
"I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on."
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Zora Neale Hurston
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166 Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good…
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I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
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I regret all of my books.
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