She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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