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

Zora Neale Hurston

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
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Distance Man
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Hide Himself Love Place Soul
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Black Man Ocean Place Power See
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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Different Love Sea
I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Death Experience Future Happiness Hope Life Mindset Myself Time Yourself
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Angry Beyond Company Feeling Myself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul

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

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