Sherman Alexie Quotes

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

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• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

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• Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

  

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• The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

  

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• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  

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• I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

  

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• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

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• Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and him as pals, and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably - but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse.

  

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• In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

  

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• When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

  

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• You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

  

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• Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Said
  • Smell
  • Wounded