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
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- We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival. – Haritha Velpureddy
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- Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. – Anthony Liccione
- When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances. – Steve Shallenberger
- Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. – John Duncan
- Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. – Sherman Alexie
- Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
- I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
- Summer coming like a car from down the highway. – Sherman Alexie
- 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
- Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
- I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
- They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
- I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
- I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – Sherman Alexie
- There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve. – Sherman Alexie
- 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
- It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. – Sherman Alexie
- My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
- An Indian’s wealth  Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
- 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
- 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
- I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
- 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
- A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
- If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
- Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
- Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk. – Sherman Alexie
- Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
- By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive. – Craig Hart
- I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. – Lawrence Durrell
- One reads so as not to believe everything one reads. – Aaron Haspel
- There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind. – Shannon L Alder
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Tom Wolfe
- Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
- The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it. – Kelseyleigh Reber
- He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old. – Edward BulwerLytton