No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThere 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Love, I find, is like singing.
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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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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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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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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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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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