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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

Zora Neale Hurston

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Man Ocean Place Power See
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Hands Myself
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Herself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Flower God Reality Wine
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

People Slave
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Distance Man

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