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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.

Zora Neale Hurston

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Forever Right
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Purpose Search
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Big Distance Time
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Herself Live Season Spring
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
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Enjoyment Pain Silence Yourself
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Flower God Reality Wine
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 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
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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God Person
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
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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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Black Death Easy Myself

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