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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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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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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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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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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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