There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOne finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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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 was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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