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It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
– Sherman Alexie

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  3. Sometimes, there’s no one around to tell you to be quiet… to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you’re all alone. – Jay Asher
  4. I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
  5. Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don’t want to play. – Sherman Alexie
  6. The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting. – Sherman Alexie
  7. I was emotionally erect. – Sherman Alexie
  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. Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. – Sherman Alexie
  12. I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain? – Sherman Alexie
  13. They wanted to help me with my pain. – Sherman Alexie
  14. I was crying because I had broken my best friend’s heart. – Sherman Alexie
  15. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. – 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. My grandmother’s last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance. – Sherman Alexie
  19. An Indian’s wealth   Is determined by what they lose And not by what they save. – Sherman Alexie
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird – Sherman Alexie
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  24. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. – Sherman Alexie
  25. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh? – Sherman Alexie
  26. Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts – Sherman Alexie
  27. 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
  28. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems. – Sherman Alexie
  29. Being loud after drinking wine doesn’t help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn’t help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way. – Mariel Hemingway
  30. You might pass by those who’re stuck in the neck bottle while you are swiming in your whiskey, be kind ! – Farid F Ibrahim
  31. You might pass by those who’re stuck in the bottle neck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind ! – Farid F Ibrahim
  32. There are three things I love, three things I spend time with, three things I treat alike: family; friends; and books. – Ogwo David Emenike
  33. There’s a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. – Diana Gabaldon
  34. Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  35. There’s no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they’re printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. – Charles Bukowski
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  38. We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world. – Debasish Mridha
  39. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  40. To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation. – Tan Twan Eng

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