I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThe present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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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 are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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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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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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