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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
Anthropologist
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Zora N. Hurston
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Bitterness
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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