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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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You got to go there to know there.
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