Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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What a woman. What a life.
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