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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave ships in shoes.
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People Slave
No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Myself World
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
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
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Different Love Philosophy Sea
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
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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
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
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Fantasy Imagination Ocean People See
Truth is a letter from courage!
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Courage Truth
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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Hurt Revenge World
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Deep Herself
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Enjoyment Greatness Herself Life Suffering Tree
One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Comfort Food Goodness Greatness Oneself
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

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

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