It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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