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 HURSTONLove 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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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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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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