Leslie Marmon Silko - Story Quotes

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there was a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions-exactly which way to go and what to do to get there; it depended on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone.

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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.

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