You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You are your best thing.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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