When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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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It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
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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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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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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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