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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Zora Neale Hurston

She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Hell Love
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Distance Man
Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Courage Truth
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Appearance Laugh Love Myself
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Moon Rise
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Herself Love Sun
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Future Past Present

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

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