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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe looked like the love thoughts of women.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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