I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONAnytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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