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Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

Writing can’t change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul Picture Quote #1

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me Picture Quote #1

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece Picture Quote #1

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together Picture Quote #1

Things which don’t shift and grow are dead things Picture Quote #1

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him Picture Quote #1

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You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories Picture Quote #1

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct Picture Quote #1

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves Picture Quote #1

Because if you weren’t born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren’t born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different Picture Quote #1

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time Picture Quote #1

Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night Picture Quote #1

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Writing can’t change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul Picture Quote #1

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things? Picture Quote #1

Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real Picture Quote #1

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world Picture Quote #1

The ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories Picture Quote #1

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be Picture Quote #1

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I don’t make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen Picture Quote #1

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside Picture Quote #1

He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up... knees from buckling... hands from letting go of the blanket Picture Quote #1

When someone dies, you don’t get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Writing can’t change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Things which don’t shift and grow are dead things (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Because if you weren’t born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren’t born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Writing can’t change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things? (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) The ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) I don’t make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up... knees from buckling... hands from letting go of the blanket (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) When someone dies, you don’t get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes) 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 (Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes)