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I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.
– Sherman Alexie

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  2. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. – Criss Jami
  3. You’re always making up stuff from the past,- she said. -œAnd the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened. – Sherman Alexie
  4. the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can’t accept. – yassi tan
  5. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
  6. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  7. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  8. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  9. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  10. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  11. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  12. There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107) – Sherman Alexie
  13. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  14. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  15. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  16. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  17. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  18. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  19. He was going to punish me now. He couldn’t beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words. – Sherman Alexie
  20. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  21. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  22. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  23. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
  24. They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
  25. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  26. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  27. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  28. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  29. one idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot. – yssubramanyam
  30. He’s no idiot, in fact he’s a genius… and that’s as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness. – Mike Judge
  31. He’s no idiot, in fact he’s a genius… and that’s as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness. – Mike Judge
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  35. Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough. – Nikki Rowe
  36. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief. – Debasish Mridha
  37. Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  38. If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders! – Israelmore Ayivor
  39. The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion. – Errol Anthony Smythe
  40. With Zia’s controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder’s otherwise clean-shaven face. – Nadeem Farooq Paracha

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