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

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Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.3, Rutgers University Press

Leslie Marmon Silko

#Stories Quotes

“I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.”
“What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?”
“The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.”
“An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.”
“I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.”
“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.”
“Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.”
“Falsehood always punishes itself.”

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