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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.
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As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.
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Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.
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Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see those separations too much, between what is artistic and what is political. Maybe in painting... no, I don't even believe that.
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