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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
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.
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Feeling Mindset Sound Touch Word
People can be slave ships in shoes.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Herself Kill Life
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Live Season Spring
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Moments One Liner
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 will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Be Yourself Herself Instagram Captions
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Different Love Philosophy Sea
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Funny Quick Right

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