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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

Zora Neale Hurston

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Kill Life
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Heart Hope Yourself
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Deep Heart
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Hide Place Soul
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
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.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Children Herself Opportunity
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
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Hell Love

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

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