An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI 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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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