It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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