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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONShe had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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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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Love, I find, is like singing.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide 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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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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