Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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