I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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