Sherman Alexie quotes - page 3

Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle? (Sherman Alexie)
If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong. View quote
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...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. View quote
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If it's fiction, then it better be true. View quote
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Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble. View quote
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. View quote
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That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people. View quote
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter. View quote
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She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy. View quote
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[Flying into Baltimore after 9/11] I didn't want to see some pacifist, vegan, whole-wheat, free-range, organic, progressive, gray-ponytail, communist, liberal, draft-dodging, NPR-listening wimp! What are they going to do if somebody tries to hijack the plane? Throw a Birkenstock at him? Offer him some pot?...I was hoping for about twenty-five NRA-loving, gun-nut, serial-killing, psychopathic, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, right-wing, Agent Orange, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, CIA, FBI, automatic-weapon, smart-bomb, laser-sighting bastards! View quote
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Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast. (Sherman Alexie)
Randy Peone: It's a good day to be indigenous! View quote
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I knew - because of my race, and my class, and rural geography ... all these forces that crush all sorts of American kids, crush their hopes and dreams - I knew I had no chance unless I left and went to a better school. View quote
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. View quote
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed. View quote
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. View quote
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Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". View quote
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I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb. View quote
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I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant. View quote
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... there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... View quote
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous. (Sherman Alexie)
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea. View quote
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He hated to leave, but he loved his work. He was a man, and men needed to work. More sexism! More masculine tunnel vision! More need for gender-sensitivity workshops! View quote
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He wondered if she would dream about a man who never left her, about some unemployed agoraphobic Indian warrior who liked to wash dishes. View quote
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William always scanned the airports and airplanes for little brown guys who reeked of fundamentalism. That meant William was equally afraid of Osama bin Laden and Jerry Falwell wearing the last vestiges of a summer tan. William himself was a little brown guy, so the other travelers were always sniffing around him, but he smelled only of Dove soap, Mennen deoderant, and sarcasm. View quote
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