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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Zora Neale Hurston

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
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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Black Death Easy Myself
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
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
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Doubt Myself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself

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