An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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