"Anything is bearable if you can make a…" — N. Scott Momaday
"Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it."
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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense…
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He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
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I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
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For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our…
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There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens…
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have…
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Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
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