I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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