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She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
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God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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