She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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