Quotes About Perspective

Thomas Wazhashk: I am not sure what study the information about our advancement, financially speaking, was based on. But I will tell you it was faulty. Most of our people live on dirt floors, no electricity, no plumbing. I haul my own water like most Indians in this room. I consider myself advanced only because I read and write. Should I not be an Indian person because I read and write?

Why would she waste her time figuring out men when she was a person who had slept with a bear?

We're from here," said Thomas. He thought awhile, drank some tea. "Think about this. If we Indians had picked up and gone over there and killed most of you and took over your land, what about that? Say you had a big farm in England. We camp there and kick you off. What do you say?

Sometimes I dream I am a man," said Millie, which was the sort of statement neither of them could meet with a response.

I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.

How could Indians hold themselves apart, when the vanquishers sometimes held their arms out, to crush them to their hearts, with something like love?

Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison

So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open.

Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith

To one born in the phenomenon of strength, weakness is an alien lie.

So maybe we are on the wrong side of the English language.

Things look different from the middle of a flooded river.

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.

Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabal Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haien Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Danny: I'm a bit jealous, Sheila. Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for? Danny: Well, because you've really lived, Sheila. Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?

only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter...The main thing is to keep people from bothering you...The rest is eyewash...

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...

Telling it all after the fact...easier said than done!...much easier!

Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As