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The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

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Toni Morrison
Age: 88 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 18
Died: 2019
Died: August 5
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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. 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 mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)
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An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
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You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
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The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are
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It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.
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We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.
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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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Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
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Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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