When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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