“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”

—  Zora Neale Hurston , book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9.

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American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

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