Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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