Leslie Marmon Silko - Storyteller (1981)

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

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

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

Leslie Marmon Silko