When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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