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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

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

Herself Kill Life
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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.
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Hands Myself
Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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God Live
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.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
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
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
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
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.
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Black Death Easy Myself
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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

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