American - Dramatist | January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
PeopleAlwaysBehaveWhoLikeGods
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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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
FunnyLiveLosingPeopleNothing
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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No man may make another free.
ManFreeMayMakeAnother
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
GodPersonNothingMoreSameMade
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