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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See Yourself
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
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
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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