She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONSo 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 is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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