"Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered."

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Source : Michael Dorris (1987). “A Yellow Raft in Blue Water”

Michael Dorris

“'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).”
“An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.”
“He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.”
“To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.”
“If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.”
“No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.”
“Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.”
“Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.”

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