He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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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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