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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
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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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Children Look Room Walk
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Believe Confidence Ending Inspirational Start
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing

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