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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Zora N. Hurston
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
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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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Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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