Dubious Quote by Sherman Alexie

“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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“In all those stories, I could fly.”

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

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“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill…

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“Son, things have never been like how you think they used to be.”

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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…

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“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.”

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