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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Book Herself Reading
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Funny Quick Right
Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Beginning Kiss Sing Tree World
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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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Friendship Live Morning Myself
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
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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God Live
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Grown Up People Thinking

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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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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