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Joy Harjo Quotes

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1951

Topics

Know Follow Always Something Off

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

School Computers Think Weird Person

I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Food Yourself Value Think Where

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Animal Kitchen Waves You Chicken

Defensive end is home for me.

Home Me End Defensive

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

Funny God City World You Honey

I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.

Think Too Much Go Page Want Never

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Myself Curiosity Born Desire Mastery

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

Russell Hornsby

Father School College High School Go

I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

Funny Experience People Camera You

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

God Day Grace Striving One Day Own

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

Christopher Masterson

Friend Mistake Me Think Down Three

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.

Love Time People Fighting Bad Laws

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