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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

Zora Neale Hurston

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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Death Light People See Yourself
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
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
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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Book Herself Reading
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
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
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Friendship Live Morning Myself
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
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
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Black Heart Herself Night
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

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