When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONGrown 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.
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 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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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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