I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONI have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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