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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Zora Neale Hurston

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
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
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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Different Love Philosophy Sea
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Deep Heart
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See 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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit

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