+ Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Love, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Toni Morrison, Ancestry, Circles, Roots, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Toni Morrison, First, Novel, Writing, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Pieces, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us. Feraz Zeid, September 11, 2023December 26, 2023, Toni Morrison, Shapes, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Attitude, Happiness, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Games, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
+ My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren’t my children. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Toni Morrison, Children, Delightful, 0 - Toni Morrison Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France