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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Zora Neale Hurston

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
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
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Deep Philosophy
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Doubt Hell Love
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Feeling Goodness Pay Understand Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Death Herself Love Sun
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
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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

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