Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
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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.
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
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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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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.
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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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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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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
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The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.
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What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?