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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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
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
People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
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 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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
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
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Children Herself Opportunity
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Live Marriage Spirit

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