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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Book To read Been written You must

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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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Give up Weighs You down

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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

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Freeing yourself One thing Claiming ownership

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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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I have Ever loved Cool baptisms Silent water

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Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

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Ever think Fell For you In love

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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

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Definitions Belongs The definers The defined

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You are Best thing

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Love is never any better than the lover.

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Love.never Any better Lover

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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

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What difference Make Thing You scared

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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The function Freedom Free Someone else

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

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You enter Positions Trust Power

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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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Really Nothing more To say Except why

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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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Anything dead Coming back Life hurts

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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

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A dream Nightmare With lipstick

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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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We die Meaning Life Do language

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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

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Anger Better Reality Presence

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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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Place Love anything Permission Desire

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Something Loved Never lost

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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

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Political correctness Debate The power Define

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What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

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World For you Make it The way

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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

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Beauty Simply something To behold Could do

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To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

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Given dominion Over another Hard thing Wrest

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The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

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The presence Evil First recognized Dealt with

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

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Think Female running House Problem

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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 truth Dreams die Never take The word

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There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

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The center Silence Not eternity Death

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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

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Mistook violence For passion Recklessness Freedom

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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

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Art Restoration Discuss Terrible things

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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

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Human Wish Permanent happiness Human imagination

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No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

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No matter How hard Ignore it Mind

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When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

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Happy Difference Stay alive

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"31 Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

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

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Love is never any better than the lover.

Toni Morrison

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Toni Morrison

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Toni Morrison

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Toni Morrison

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Toni Morrison

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Toni Morrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

Toni Morrison

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Toni Morrison

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

Toni Morrison

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Toni Morrison

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Toni Morrison

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

Toni Morrison

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Toni Morrison

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Toni Morrison

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

Toni Morrison

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Toni Morrison

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Toni Morrison

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

Toni Morrison

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.

Toni Morrison

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Quotes & Sayings

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