In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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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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