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Sherman Alexie Inspirational Quotes (122)

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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)
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One play can change your momentum forever.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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What if someone picks on me? I asked Then I'll pick on them. What if someone picks my nose? I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too Rowdy said.
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Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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