Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

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Two things everybody's got to do for themselves. They've got to go to God, and they have got to find out about living for themselves

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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

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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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As de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' what Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

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She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

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Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

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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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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

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"Well, Ah see Mouth-Almighty is still sittin' in de same place. And Ah reckon they got me up in they mouth now." "Yes indeed. You know if you pass some people and don't speak tuh suit 'em dey got tuh go way back in yo' life and see whut you ever done. They know mo' 'bout yuh than you do yo' self. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened." "If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em than Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass."

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The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

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