I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
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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.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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