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Zora Neale Hurston

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Family Humor Myself Nation See
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.
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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Herself Thinking Word

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