There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

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Autobiography and memoir

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road · 1942

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Creative impulse Stories Writing

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Autobiography and memoir

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1942

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. — Zora Neale Hurston

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