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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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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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