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“I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.” quote by Toni Morrison — Download Open image

““I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.””

Toni Morrison

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“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”

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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he…

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“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our…

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