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Toni Morrison Quotes about Lying

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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

Toni Morrison
Lying, Vitality, Language
Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Toni Morrison
Lying, Miracle, Magic

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Toni Morrison
Loneliness, Lying, Color

...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

Toni Morrison
Lying, Night, Breathing
Toni Morrison (1992). “Jazz”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

Toni Morrison
Strong, Lying, Maturity
Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

Toni Morrison
Lying, Needs, Care
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