The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Love 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.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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