"I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)" — Sherman Alexie
"I drew because words were too unpredictable. (5)"
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178 Quotes by Sherman Alexie
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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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Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of…
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Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I…
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog,…
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I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price…
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed…
— Charlotte Bronte
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His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards…
— Marcel Proust
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty…
— Berkeley Breathed
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How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At…
— Francis Frangipane
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The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
— William Gilbert
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges.…
— Ten Bears
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