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“I draw because words are too unpredictable.
I draw because words are too limited.
If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.
But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.
If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
I draw because words are too limited.
If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.
But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.
If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
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