No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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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’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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