It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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