Sherman Alexie Quotes
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
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Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.
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The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
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Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.
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If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.
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Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
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Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
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I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.
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One should not run on a new road.
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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
