All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONYour life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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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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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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