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First Quotes by Toni Morrison
- When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence…
- My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all…
- The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
- I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
- The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.
- They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm…
- 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…
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