All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONHe wants to put his story next to hers.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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