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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.

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

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  2. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  3. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
  4. What’s happened has happened. You can’t change the past. All you can do is work on making a brighter future. – Jen Calonita
  5. Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
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  8. 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
  9. Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. — Sherman Alexie – Anita Silvey
  10. Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
  11. 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
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  13. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  14. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  15. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  16. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
  17. 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
  18. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
  19. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  20. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  21. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
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  23. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
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  25. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
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  27. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
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  29. Morgan said, -œAnd what have you brought me?--œSomething unexpected,- Sam said pr – TJ Klune
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  31. When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
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  37. Some people are born to weirdness,- Jerry said, -œand others have weirdness thrust upon them. – Tom Upton
  38. I’m saying there is evil in the world,- Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, -œand doubt is the weapon that guards against it. – Daniel Abraham
  39. There is no Master but the Master,- he said, -œand QT-1 is his prophet. – Isaac Asimov
  40. You’ve been inexpressibly lucky,- he said finally. -œAnd inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing – Naomi Novik

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