Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for 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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