An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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