Sherman Alexie Quotes

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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  • Hate
  • Sad

• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Step

• I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • Hate
  • Respect

• I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Reason
  • Mountain
  • Skiing

• The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
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• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Parent
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  • Faithful

• I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Book
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• Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

  

  Anatole Broyard
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• Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
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• For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • World
  • Book
  • Poetry

• I hate all sidekicks.

  

  Patton Oswalt
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• I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

  

  Billy Collins
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  • Poetry

• If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it’s quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

  

  Norman Geras
  • Reason
  • Succeed
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• You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • You
  • Like
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• I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.

  

  Sherman Alexie
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