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Toni Morrison

"To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one."

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"To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is life. Time for birth, time for death."

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"Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!"

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Amber Hurdle

"A great difference between the womb and the tomb is the w and the t! We waist great and precious time as we journey from the womb to the tomb, in the end we shall remember the w and the t! Hmm! The wasted time!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The sacred time defined the sacred-moment."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal."

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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
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"I get angry about things, then go on and work."
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"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."
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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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"Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous."
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"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."
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"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."
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"Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape."
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"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"
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"Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible."
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