I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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