No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONWhen one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I 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.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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