Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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