Michael Dorris Quotes

#1. At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

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#2. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

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#3. These boots were made for dancing"(260)

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#4. Fear is a memory of better times. Fear is a dream.

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#5. I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

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#6. Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

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#7. She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

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#8. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

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#9. Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance ... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

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

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#11. We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

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#12. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

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