Quote by Sherman Alexie Download Open image ““surrounded by five hundred years of convenient lies.”” — Sherman Alexie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We are in the presence of a thousand lies all pointing with their fantastic fingers to one undiscovered truth.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Though the truth may travel a thousand miles and visit a hundred places, it will always find its way home.” — Massoud Abbasi Copy Share Image
“A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“How quickly a web of lies is spun, then carefully concealed from where it began.” — Sawbridge Copy Share Image
“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“He says the earth is an oval marble that nobody can win. He says the sky is not blue and the grass is not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now, in the old days, Indians used to be forgiving of any kind of eccentricity. In fact, weird people were often celebrated. Epileptics were often shamans because people just assumed that God gave seizure-visions to the lucky ones. Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A century ago she might have been beautiful, her face reflected in the river instead of a mirror. But all the years have changed… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Is there really a difference between that killing and this killing? Does God approve of some killing and not other killing? If I kill… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I could have anesthetized myself with homework and extra credit and binge-reading.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Dear wife, I'm sorry that I am mysteriously incapable of folding clean laundry, but I iron, oh, I iron. Sweetheart, I'll make your white… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
