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Quotation by Toni Morrison
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as quoted in Grace Notes by Rita Dove (1989)as quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979)as quoted in New York (December 21-28, 1992)as quoted in the New York Times Magazine (September 11, 1994)as quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994)Related Subjects
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How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
Toni Morrison (b. 1931), U.S. novelist, editor. Jazz, ch. 2 (1991).
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