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Toni Morrison Quotes

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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.
From Beloved
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
From Song of Solomon
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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
From Song of Solomon
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Love is or it ain’t
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
From Song of Solomon
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
From Beloved
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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
From Song of Solomon
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
From Paradise
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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.
From Beloved
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
From Song of Solomon
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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
From Song of Solomon
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Love is or it ain’t
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
From Song of Solomon
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
From Beloved
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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
From Song of Solomon
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
From Paradise
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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure you get back out. I’m not saying this because I need a place to stay. That’s the last thing I need. I told you, I’m a walking man, but I been heading in this direction for seven years. Walking all around this place. Upstate, downstate, east, west; I been in territory ain’t got no name, never staying nowhere long. But when I got here and sat out there on the porch, waiting for you, well, I knew it wasn’t the place I was heading toward; it was you. We can make a life, girl. A life.
From Beloved
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I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
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You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
From Song of Solomon
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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I like marriage. The idea.
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She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
From Song of Solomon
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Love is or it ain’t
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No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
From Song of Solomon
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
From Beloved
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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
From Song of Solomon
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
From Paradise
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