Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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You are your best thing.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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