QUOTES by Sherman Alexie
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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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.
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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.
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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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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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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.
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You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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".
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Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
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If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.
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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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The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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