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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONMy head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Truth is a letter from courage!
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Love makes your soul crawl 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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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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