Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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The prompt and title is the opening line from "Their Eyes Were Watching God", 1937, written by Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960). The first lines of the book are as follows:

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”