She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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