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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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