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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The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.
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And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
