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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
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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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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So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
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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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You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
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I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
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I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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