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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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.
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Different Love Sea
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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