Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONThere’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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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