Michael Dorris Quotes

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• Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be…
• I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.
• I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of…
• At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always…
• Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.
• To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
• We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.
• My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the…
• Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently…
• Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.
• The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty,…

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