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Trying Quotes by Toni Morrison
- Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the…
- What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say…
- All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop…
- I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had…
- All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
- Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your…
- Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and…
- How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold