"I will tell you something about stories .……" — Leslie Marmon Silko
"I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death."
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23 Quotes by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our…
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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous…
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What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?
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The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.
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Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars…
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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing…
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the…
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware…
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But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it…
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The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth…
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