Leslie Marmon Silko Short Quotes

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You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.

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She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories.

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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

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It's only a matter of time, Indian
you can't sleep with the river forever.

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Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

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Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

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The snow... came in thick tufts like new wool — washed before the weaver spins it.

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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

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The material world and the flesh are only temporary — there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

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Anybody can act violently — there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

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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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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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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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