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

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
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
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
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Dinner Goodness Greatness Love Old Oneself
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Doubt Myself
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Feeling Herself Man Save See
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 the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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Illusion Myself Reality Search Walk
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself 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
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Herself Hide Place Soul
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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Deep Eyes Food Man Nature Philosophy Season See
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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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Friendship Live Morning Myself
Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love Myself One Liner Sing
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Friendship Lying Scare
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Hide Love Place Soul
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Mindset Myself
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
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
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 spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Live Marriage Spirit
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
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
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Human Yourself
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Eyes Myself Yourself

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