Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Life
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. 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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I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
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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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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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