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If writing is thinking and dis...

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Race is the least reliable inf...

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

One has to work very carefully...

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The language must be careful a...

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I sometimes lose interest in t...

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

All art is knowing when to sto...

All art is knowing when to stop.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Can't nothing heal without pai...

Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Everything depends on knowing ...

Everything depends on knowing how much,Ђќ she said, and 'Good is knowing when to stop.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

All of us--all who knew her--f...

All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Definitions belong to the defi...

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I tell my students, 'When you ...

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

This is the time for every art...

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I write the way women have bab...

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I type in one place, but I wri...

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I don't wait to be struck by l...

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

I don't want you to write abou...

I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

When you first start writing-a...

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 right that minute it's never going to show up again. And it isn't. But it doesn't matter-another one will, and it'll probably be better. And I don't mind writing badly for a couple of days because I know I can fix it-and fix it again and again and again, and it will be better.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Usually I try to be there by s...

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 bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

The pieces I am, she gather th...

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

For me, Art is the restoration...

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....