Sherman Alexie Quotes
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
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I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
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This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.
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I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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The denunciation and smearing of truly gifted people like Rodriguez—people the Chicano community should be proud of—by the self-appointed gatekeepers of Chicano Studies is, alas, an everyday spectacle. Did anyone in the Chicano Studies community even take note when Dana Gioia, who is one of the best poets of his generation and happens to be half Mexican American, was named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002? No, because he made it on his merits and not by being a victimization hustler.
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We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.
