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Navarre Scott Momaday, né le 27 février 1934 à Lawton en Oklahoma, est un écrivain amérindien de culture Kiowa et Cherokee. Son roman La Maison de l'aube, publié en 1968, a reçu le prix Pulitzer de la fiction en 1969 et marque le début de la Renaissance amérindienne. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. février 1934
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N. Scott Momaday: Citations en anglais

“We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.”

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N. Scott Momaday

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”

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N. Scott Momaday livre The Way to Rainy Mountain

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.”

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N. Scott Momaday livre House Made of Dawn

Source: House Made of Dawn