She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONHe was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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