Toni Morrison Quotes About Life
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.
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Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.
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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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