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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Zora Neale Hurston

She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hands Myself
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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Deep Live Love Philosophy
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Human Yourself
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
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Philosophy

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