It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTruth is a letter from courage!
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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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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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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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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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
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