Тони Моррисон цитаты страница 4

„Осознание пришло позднее: чувства возвращались медленно, словно мусор, выбрасываемый волной на берег моря.“

Эта цитата ждет обзора.

„Больше нечего сказать, кроме как почему. Но поскольку с этим трудно разобраться, нужно искать убежище в том, как.“

мусор, осознание
Источник: романы

„Несмотря на белую кожу, это наш первый черный президент.“

„Я не запутался в формировании своей работы в соответствии с мнением других людей о том, как я должен был это сделать.“

„Мужчина - не что иное, как мужчина. Но сын? Ну, теперь это кто-то.“

„Функция свободы - освободить кого-то еще.“

Тони Моррисон цитаты

„Независимо от того, чего ожидали все ваши зубы и мокрые пальцы, не было никакой причины, по которой эта простая радость может потрясти вас.“

„Ничего подобного грехи других людей для отвлечения внимания.“

„Все зависит от того, сколько ты знаешь, - сказала она, - и хорошо знать, когда остановиться.“

“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”

Тони Моррисон: Цитаты на английском языке

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Источник: Sula

“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”

Toni Morrison книга Song of Solomon

Источник: Song of Solomon

“You looking good."
"Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.”

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

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

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.”

“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”

Toni Morrison книга Paradise

Источник: Paradise

“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”

Toni Morrison книга The Bluest Eye

Источник: The Bluest Eye

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Источник: Sula

“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”

Toni Morrison книга God Help the Child

Источник: God Help the Child

“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”

Toni Morrison книга The Bluest Eye

Источник: The Bluest Eye

“You been gone too long, Sula.

Not too long, but maybe too far.”

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

“I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Источник: Sula

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Sula (1973)

“Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.”

Toni Morrison книга Paradise

Источник: Paradise

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.”

Toni Morrison книга Jazz

Источник: Jazz

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

Toni Morrison книга The Bluest Eye

Источник: The Bluest Eye

“You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.”

Toni Morrison Love

Источник: Love

“you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.”

Toni Morrison книга God Help the Child

Источник: God Help the Child

“… the change was adjustment without improvement.”

Toni Morrison книга Beloved

Источник: Beloved

“People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.”

Toni Morrison книга The Bluest Eye

Источник: The Bluest Eye

“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”

“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 книга God Help the Child

Источник: God Help the Child

“I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.”

Interview with Don Swaim (1987)

“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

“The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Источник: Sula

“When I write, I don't translate for white readers…. Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.”

Toni Morrison книга Sula

Источник: Sula

“Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.”