Sherman Alexie Quotes
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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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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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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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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There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.
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I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint.
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.
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[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
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We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.
