When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThose that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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