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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
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The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.
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Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two…
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What else is belief but direction?
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If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
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One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the…
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Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
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Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.…
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Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered…
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For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the…
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around…
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to…
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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I…
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Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage…
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all;…
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Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader…
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I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen…
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