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We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness. — Sherman Alexie

Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth. — Sherman Alexie

But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer. — Sherman Alexie

All art is exploitation. — Sherman Alexie

The professor ignored Lynn's comments and proceeded with his lecture. — Sherman Alexie

I know that death is never added to death; it multiplies. — Sherman Alexie

I learned how to stop crying.
I learned how to hide inside of myself.
I learned how to be somebody else.
I learned how to be cold and numb. — Sherman Alexie

I was emotionally erect. — Sherman Alexie

Mary was a bright and shining star," Mr. P said. "And then she faded year by year until you could barely see her anymore. — Sherman Alexie

I'm a freak with power. — Sherman Alexie

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. — Sherman Alexie

She was so white his reservation eyes suffered. — Sherman Alexie

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well. — Sherman Alexie

Listen. I don't know how or when

My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again. — Sherman Alexie

I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. — Sherman Alexie

There's never enough time to change your life. You don't get to change your life, period. — Sherman Alexie

And if God hadn't wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn't have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs. — Sherman Alexie

Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential. — Sherman Alexie

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. — Sherman Alexie

Naked women + right hand = happy happy joy joy — Sherman Alexie

Surrounded by five hundred years of convenient lies. — Sherman Alexie

Whites and Indians laughed at most of the same jokes, but they laughed for different reasons. — Sherman Alexie

one ponders. And when one ponders, one creates theories - hypotheses, to explain the world. — Sherman Alexie

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

There is a good day to die and there is a good day to play the piano. — Sherman Alexie

Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11? — Sherman Alexie

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. — Sherman Alexie

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained. — Sherman Alexie

Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss army knives. — Sherman Alexie

She went searching for her dreams, and she didn't find them, but she made the attempt. — Sherman Alexie

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

I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo. — Sherman Alexie

He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners. — Sherman Alexie

In all those stories, I could fly. — Sherman Alexie

Jeez, it was a lot of pressure to put on a kid. I was carrying the burden of my race, you know? I was going to get a bad back from it. — Sherman Alexie

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

She kissed him like he was a warrior; she kissed him like she was a warrior. — Sherman Alexie

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators. — Sherman Alexie

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. — Sherman Alexie

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

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. — Sherman Alexie

The ordinary can be like medicine. — Sherman Alexie

And that's when I knew that I was going to be okay. — Sherman Alexie

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time. — Sherman Alexie

Books and beer are the best and worst defense. — Sherman Alexie

We only know how to lose and be lost. — Sherman Alexie

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

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. — Sherman Alexie

Adam and Eve covered their privates with fig leaves; the first Indians covered their privates with their tiny hands. — Sherman Alexie

In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved — Sherman Alexie

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

Because I want to be remembered. — Sherman Alexie

Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves. — Sherman Alexie

Everybody prayed; everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights. — Sherman Alexie

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation. — Sherman Alexie

He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years. — Sherman Alexie

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. — Sherman Alexie

My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. — Sherman Alexie

Spiritual matters should be private. — Sherman Alexie

Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation. — Sherman Alexie

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. — Sherman Alexie

I mean, you have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too — Sherman Alexie

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

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. — Sherman Alexie

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal. — Sherman Alexie

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. — Sherman Alexie

Poetry = Anger x Imagination — Sherman Alexie

What do you say to people when they ask you how it feels to lose everything? — Sherman Alexie

Last night I dreamed about television. I woke up crying. — Sherman Alexie

I didn't know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch. — Sherman Alexie

Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go? — Sherman Alexie

What scares me least? The Afterlife. Really. Who cares? I'm going to be a good person no matter what is supposed to happen after I die. — Sherman Alexie

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep — Sherman Alexie

We're all travelling heavy with illusions. — Sherman Alexie

I'm a poet who can whine in meter — Sherman Alexie

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. — Sherman Alexie

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. — Sherman Alexie

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191) — Sherman Alexie

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me. — Sherman Alexie

If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own. — Sherman Alexie

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame. — Sherman Alexie

Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken. — Sherman Alexie

It's not whether you win or lose, it's about how you play the game. — Sherman Alexie

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic. — Sherman Alexie

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. — Sherman Alexie

I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told. — Sherman Alexie

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything. — Sherman Alexie

Here's the score. Once a thing tastes blood, it will come for more. — Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

And I laughed because half of me was happy and half of me wasn't sure what else to do. — Sherman Alexie

White Americans have a short memory. — Sherman Alexie

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) — Sherman Alexie

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. — Sherman Alexie

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood. — Sherman Alexie

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. — Sherman Alexie

He made me realize that hard work
that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous — Sherman Alexie

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". — Sherman Alexie

I look more Indian when I'm serious. — Sherman Alexie

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In the darkness, her dark body grows darker
until I am making love to her and her shadow. — Sherman Alexie