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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Distance Man
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
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
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Sea
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy Myself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself People See
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Person

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