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Zora Neale Hurston

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
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
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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Book Herself Reading
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Heart Hope Yourself
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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Herself Moon Rise
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Death Fear Herself Understand

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

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