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American Novelist February 18, 1931

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Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had,..."
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability. Toni Morrison
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "Unless carefree, mother love was a killer."
Unless carefree, mother love was a killer. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I..."
More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark? Toni Morrison
This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about baby clothes like any other woman, but what she meant could cleave the bone. This here Sethe talked about safety with a handsaw. This here new Sethe didn't know where the world stopped and she began. Suddenly he saw what Stamp Paid wanted him to see: more important than what Sethe had done was what she claimed. It scared him. Toni Morrison
You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks. Toni Morrison
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that. Toni Morrison
She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love. Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if..."
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. Toni Morrison
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... Toni Morrison
Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir... Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison quote: "When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it..."
When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever. Toni Morrison
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, stupid people love stupidly, weak people love weakly . . . Toni Morrison
I didn't even know his name. And if I didn't know his name then there is nothing I did know and I have known nothing ever at all since the one thing I wanted was to know his name so how could he help but leave me since he was making love to a woman who didn't even know his name. Toni Morrison

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