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QUOTATION:Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
ATTRIBUTION:Jacques Roumain (1907–1945), Haitian author, ethnologist, political activist. Repr. Éditions Messidor (1992). Antoine in Masters of the Dew, p. 166, Les Éditeurs Français Réunis (1946).
 
 
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