"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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"Distance is the only cure for certain diseases."
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"Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night."
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"The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting."
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"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."
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"Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget."
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"Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started."
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"Love, I find, is like singing."
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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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"When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking."
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"If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony."
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"you can't beat me and my prayers!"
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"Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out."
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"It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful."
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"It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding."
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"Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!"
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"She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see."
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"Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. It might be better to ask yourself "Why?" afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
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"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."
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"...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red."
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