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.
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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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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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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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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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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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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