Top 12 Quotes by Michael Dorris

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

Michael Dorris

Love, Loyalty, Grief

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.

Michael Dorris

Sleep, Ideas, Grandparent

Michael Dorris (1994). “Guests”

My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.

Michael Dorris

Son, Night, Men

The Broken Cord ch. 14 (1989)

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

Michael Dorris

Stories, Notoriety, Saddest

Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?

Michael Dorris

Order, Historical, Perception

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious.

Michael Dorris

Humility, Native American, Past

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

Michael Dorris

Asks

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

Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every human being on the planet. - Nearly 800 million people literally go hungry every day, with more than a third of the earth's population -- 2 billion men and women -- malnourished one way or another, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Michael Dorris

Men, Years, Organization

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.

Michael Dorris

Loyalty, Art, Strong

Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins