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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Zora Neale Hurston

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 had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Herself Kill Life
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Black Death Easy 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
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
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Fight Herself Lie Myself Patriot
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
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Light Sun Walk
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
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Forever Moments One Liner
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Death Fear Herself Understand
Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Divine Mystery One Liner
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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Act Dream Forget Remember Truth Woman
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

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