Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAn envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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