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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Zora Neale Hurston

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Forever Right
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
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
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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.
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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Human Yourself

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