Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNow, 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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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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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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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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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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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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