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Toni Morrison

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Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
TONI MORRISON You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His ...
TONI MORRISON If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world w...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
TONI MORRISON I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
JAMILA WOODS I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
HARUKI MURAKAMI She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing some...
TONI MORRISON I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin...
JUNOT DIAZ Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plu...
JOHN UPDIKE And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally ...
TERRY PRATCHETT I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than ...
T.F. HODGE No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON But it wasn't all bad. Sometimes things wasn't all bad. He used to come home easing into bed sometim...
TONI MORRISON ‘Capri’, is a complete wear because it covers more than half pant, reveals more than full pant a...
DR HITESH C SHETH I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What is more thrilling than BASE jumping into the abyss of one’s imagination?
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN People have sacrificed more to make me be happy than I could ever dream of.
CHAD KELLY It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy st...
JOEY COMEAU Love makes people get crazy, but not for me. I am more brilliant than ever.
NOVI ARISMAN When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ...
SUNIL YAPA Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR [The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever...
SIR LAURENS VAN DER POST There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendshi...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
JULIUS IRVING I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discus...
JOHN SEARLE No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster f...
BILL WALTON I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.
NICHOLAS SPARKS (Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or hal...
ALEXANDER JODOROWSKY What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything ...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want yo...
SARAH MACLEAN Mirrors show u more than anything else ever could...
GEORGE OTERO Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the...
CRISS JAMI Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
GEORGE HERBERT Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie
GEORGE HERBERT I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, a...
GREG COX Have you ever noticed that teachers assign homework, but more than half of thier students don't actu...
JOHN PACK JR I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more tha...
PETER STRAUB If you don’t start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then yo...
CAROLINE KEPNES I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as intere...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.
SLICK RICK Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "W...
SHANNON L. ALDER When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his natur...
PAUL BRUNTON I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time les...
AMOS LEE The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes...
HENRY CLOUD Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
ZOEY DEUTCH I feel like I should have more of a Morrison-type of thing on,
MAGGIE GRACE When you love yourself more than anyone else ever could, that's dangerous.
FATHOM Don't make life more confusing, crazy, or complicated than it needs to be.
SHELLY KAY WALDE Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of t...
E. B. WHITE Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of ...
ALFRED EMANUEL SMITH Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of t...
E. B. WHITE On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unkno...
HARUKI MURAKAMI May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong, And may you be in he...
OLD IRISH SAYING The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...
ANNE RICE For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much ...
JOHN LITHGOW I'd rather have a full house at a medium price than half-full at a high price.
GEORGE SHINN it takes more than just words to hurt me unless they happen to be particularly truthful words strung...
RANA MAGDY A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world n...
MICHELLE BACHELET Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wrac...
ANNE LAMOTT To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more ...
THOMAS MOORE Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the ...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the ...
E. B. WHITE We carried out a survey of our readers, and more than half of them only ever used point-and-shoot mo...
JAMIE HARRISON I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Had we had a better understanding of what we were doing, we could have saved a good year to a year a...
ANDREW CHESLEY Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
HAMZA YUSUF I like to look at the glass half full.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret....
SUSANNA KAYSEN We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
SHEPARD SMITH And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent trea...
JEAN FERRIS Understanding has more value than knowledge.
STEVEN REDHEAD I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.
NIGEL KENNEDY It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pre...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Now the situation could be resolved, and we could put this behind us -- both the awkward misundersta...
WATARU WATARI Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no lo...
JOSEPH HELLER A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's La...
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TONI MORRISON When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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TONI MORRISON If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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TONI MORRISON You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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TONI MORRISON Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
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TONI MORRISON He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have m...
TONI MORRISON If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...
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TONI MORRISON Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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TONI MORRISON Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to...
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TONI MORRISON In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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TONI MORRISON You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I ...
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TONI MORRISON Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destr...
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TONI MORRISON Suspended between the nastiness of life and the meanness of the dead, she couldn't get interested in...
TONI MORRISON Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.
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TONI MORRISON Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wa...
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TONI MORRISON It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder
TONI MORRISON He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISON You are your best thing
TONI MORRISON Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISON Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or eve...
TONI MORRISON And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
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TONI MORRISON I’m crazy about this City.

Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half....
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TONI MORRISON Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
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TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
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TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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TONI MORRISON It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
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TONI MORRISON If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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TONI MORRISON And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
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TONI MORRISON florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lin...
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TONI MORRISON Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu...
TONI MORRISON Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has...
TONI MORRISON All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut...
TONI MORRISON guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our o...
TONI MORRISON To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; ...
TONI MORRISON I have my own list of objections that I can peruse at my leisure, not least of which is an almost co...
TONI MORRISON No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that ...
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TONI MORRISON It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...
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TONI MORRISON He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe....
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TONI MORRISON This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...
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TONI MORRISON Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
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TONI MORRISON Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far ...
TONI MORRISON You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
TONI MORRISON you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactles...
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TONI MORRISON Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISON You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
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TONI MORRISON When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma...
TONI MORRISON Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dange...
TONI MORRISON Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'

Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being ali...
TONI MORRISON Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
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TONI MORRISON Something that is loved is never lost.
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TONI MORRISON if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
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TONI MORRISON There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a livi...
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TONI MORRISON Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.
TONI MORRISON Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying...
TONI MORRISON See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a...
TONI MORRISON Her passions were narrow but deep.
TONI MORRISON God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...
TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w...
TONI MORRISON What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...
TONI MORRISON The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
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TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement.
TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...
TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
TONI BRAXTON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I...
TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours.
TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el...
TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home.
TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ...
TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.
TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places.
TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind,
God knows how hard I've tried
TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&...
TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe...
TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ...
TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c...
TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa...
TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some...
TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.
TONI SORENSON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavou...
TONI COLLETTE The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, m...
TONI SORENSON The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' albu...
TONI TENNILLE Over the last three years I've been broke, dumped, and pimped.
TONI BRAXTON People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with ...
TONI COLLETTE Take a discovery walk today to find what's missing in your life. There's peace in the whisper of the...
TONI SORENSON Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more t...
TONI TENNILLE It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to...
TONI JENNINGS I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the mom...
TONI COLLETTE After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts abou...
TONI COLLETTE Cameron and I actually do wear the same size, ... It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
TONI COLLETTE Hello, sex on legs
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TONI SIMONETTI I believe in nurturing the inner world.
TONI COLLETTE I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.
TONI COLLETTE Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-comin...
TONI BLAKE Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m...
TONI COLLETTE