Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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