It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You are your own stories.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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