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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

Zora Neale Hurston

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Darkness Eyes God
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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Different Himself Oneself World
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
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
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
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
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
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Deep Future Past Present
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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

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