Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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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She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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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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Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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