She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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