"But the real interesting stuff is in the……" — Sherman Alexie
"But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic."
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie has 178 quotes on this site.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that…
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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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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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant.…
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian…
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and…
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
— Stephen King
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I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail…
— Ann Hood
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all…
— Robbie Robertson
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
— Laurence Olivier
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and…
— Barry Nelson
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
— Peter Ustinov
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She…
— Erica Jong
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and…
— Michel Gondry
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some…
— Paul Muni
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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