In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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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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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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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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