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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When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
