Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You are your best thing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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All important things are hard.
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