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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Zora Neale Hurston

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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Herself Moon Rise
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old 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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
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
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Himself Love Woman
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Enjoyment Kill Pain Silence Yourself
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Feeling Grief Herself
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Herself People See
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
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
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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Death Dream Herself Love Marriage Woman
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Hide Inspirational

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

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