Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONI type in one place, but I write all over the house.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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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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