Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONThere 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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All important things are hard.
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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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