An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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