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I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.
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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.
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What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
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It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.
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I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
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