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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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