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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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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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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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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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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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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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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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