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

Zora Neale Hurston

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

God Live
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
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
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Human Yourself
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World
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.
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Children Herself Opportunity
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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Herself Life Struggle
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
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Friendship Live Morning Myself
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.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk

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