Sherman Alexie Quotes - Page 8

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• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

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  Dream, Song, Cancer

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• Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

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  Summer, Nature, Car

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

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  Christian, Parent, Fundamentalist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Native American

  "Author Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight'". Interview with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. April 11, 2007.

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• A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

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  Garden, Ideas, Eden

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

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  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

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  Thinking, Selfishness, Agendas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

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  People, Poor, Poor People

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 2009.

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• If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

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  Book, Fighting, Enough Chances

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• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

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  Book, Fall, Reading

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.286, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

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  War, Dubious, Might

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 2009.

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• When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

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  Book, Home, Views

  David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). “The Best American Poetry 2015”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

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  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• White Americans have a short memory.

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  Memories, White, Short Memory

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Adults, Literature

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

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  Folks, International, Knows

  Interview with Neko Case, www.believermag.com. February 2012.

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• The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

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  Book, Years, People

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

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  Artist, Thinking, Want

  "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

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  Responsibility, Moral, Problem

  "Born again, again". Interview with Dale Bridges for Boulder Weekly, dalebridges.org. 2007.

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• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

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  Beautiful, Shine On, Circles

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

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  Doctors, People, Different

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Way, Emotion

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• Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

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  Mother, Book, Fate

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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

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  Wall, Broken, Promise

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.206, Open Road Media

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