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I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. ✨ Toni Morrison's Fiction: Revised and Expanded Edition. Book by Jan Furman, 2014.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. ✨ Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). Conversations with Toni Morrison, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it. ✨ Toni Morrison (1998). Paradise, Knopf
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance … ▶
Passion is never enough; neither is skill. ✨ Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. ✨ Toni Morrison's Fiction: Revised and Expanded Edition. Book by Jan Furman, 2014.

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