Sherman Alexie Short Quotes

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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

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That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

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Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

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I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird

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Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.

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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito...

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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

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The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

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We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.

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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

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Thomas: Sometimes it's a good day to die, and sometimes it's a good day to have breakfast.

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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

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Nurse: You guys are like the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Thomas: We're more like Tonto and Tonto.

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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

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Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

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When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

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I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

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He wondered if she would dream about a man who never left her, about some unemployed agoraphobic Indian warrior who liked to wash dishes.

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