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anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
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Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.
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No man may make another free.
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