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Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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Zora N. Hurston
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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.
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I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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every heart has its graveyard.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in sickly air. People can be slaveships in shoes.
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The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?
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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
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To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
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Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink 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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