The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONI think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You are your best thing.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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