Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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