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You Don't Have Anything If You Don't Have The Stories.
-Leslie Marmon Silko
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You Don't Have Anything If You Don't
Leslie Marmon Silko
You Don't Have Anything If You Don't Have The Stories.
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Distances And Days Existed In Themselves Then; They All Had A Story. They Were Not Barriers. If A Person Wanted To Get To The Moon, There Is A Way; It All Depended On Whether You Knew The Directions, On Whether You Knew The Story Of How Others Before You Had Gone. He Had Believed In The Stories For A Long Time, Until The Teachers At Indian School Taught Him Not To Believe In That Kind Of "nonsense". But They Had Been Wrong.
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