And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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.
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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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You are your own stories.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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