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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

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

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

Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
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
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
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

Different Himself Oneself World
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
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Himself Love Place Soul
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Himself Love Woman
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Herself Live Season Spring
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

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

Herself People See
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Hide Love Place Soul
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Feeling Herself Man Save See

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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