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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.

Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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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Hands Myself
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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
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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Herself Thinking Word
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Different Himself Oneself World

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