Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONJanie 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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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 love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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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.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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