In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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