Sherman Alexie Quotes

You can't sustain anger. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Sherman Alexie

• Bitter
• Resentment
• Juice
• Orange
• Martyrdom

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• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

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• I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

  

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• I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.

  

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• You can't sustain anger. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Bitter
  • Resentment
  • Juice