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Sherman Alexie Inspirational Quotes (122)

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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
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I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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