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“Laughter is more serious than tears.”

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Toni Morrison is an American novelist known for her profound portrayal of the history and culture of African Americans. Her works often explore issues of race, gender, and identity, with her most famous novels being 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Sula'. more

“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.”

Writing Doe Life Is Lying Energy Objects Draws Cells Instant Shock Viewers Boldness Anticipate Exhibits

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Time is the Mercy of Eternity”

Mercy Eternity

Book:The Portable William Blake

Source: The Portable William Blake

“It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”

Easy Affliction Easy Things

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.”

Wells Speak Behinds Friends My Friends Behind My Back

Author:Thomas Fuller

“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.”

Men Care Evil Wise Fool Caring Intellect Holiness I Care

Author:William Blake

“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”

Ifs Would Be Lions Foxes Cunning

Book:The Selected Poems of William Blake

Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake

“There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.”

Two Deceit

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”

House Hell Saws Generations Method Printing

Author:William Blake

“Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.”

Art Fool Harmony Destructive

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

Quote by Toni Morrison

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