No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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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 is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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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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