She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONOh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving 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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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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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