I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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