She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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