Sherman AlexieLike officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other… ▶371LifeReading
Sherman AlexieThat's right, I am a book kisser.371Reading
Sherman AlexieWhen I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how … ▶362LoveReadingThought
Sherman AlexieThat's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to… ▶351LifeLoveTime
Sherman AlexiePoetry = Anger x Imagination ✨ David Lehman, Sherman Alexie (2015). The Best American Poetry 2015, p.21, Simon and Schuster373Humor
Sherman AlexieWhen it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.362DeathHumor
Sherman AlexieI got in a fight with my girlfriend, I said. I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know? Well, you should be more careful where you drive, the officer said. You're mak… ▶341Humanity
Sherman AlexieIn the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful… ▶352Life
Sherman AlexieI think I was born with a suitcase.364Thought
Sherman AlexieThe world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.364Humanity
Sherman AlexieIs revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle? ✨ FaceBook post bySherman Alexie from Oct 08, 2015333Reading
Sherman AlexieWhen you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination. ✨ FaceBook post bySherman Alexie from Aug 06, 2015355LifeReading
Sherman AlexieAt the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future. 377HopeTime
Sherman AlexieI grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's j… ▶366ReadingTimeTruth
Sherman AlexieA lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.334HumanityReadingThought
Sherman AlexieCorliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a fo… ▶378Reading
Sherman Alexieit's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words ✨ Sherman Alexie… ▶345Reflection
Sherman AlexieI think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. ✨ Excerpt: 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian', w… ▶312LifeThoughtTime
Sherman AlexieWhat kind of life can you have in a house without books? ✨ Sherman Alexie (2013). Flight: A Novel, p.16, Open Road Media334LifeReading
Sherman AlexieMy father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the sa… ▶345LovePolitics
Sherman AlexieWe're all travelling heavy with illusions. ✨ FaceBook post bySherman Alexie from May 25, 2016368Reading
Sherman AlexieThe streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word … ▶291Hope
Sherman AlexieYes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been f… ▶335HumanityReading
Sherman AlexieI suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.302LifeReadingTime
Sherman AlexieLife is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community. ✨ Sherman Alexie (2016). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, p.127,… ▶357LifeTimeTruth
Sherman AlexieYep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well … ▶346LoveTimeTruth
Sherman AlexieI was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.324Humor
Sherman AlexieAnd none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and th… ▶368HumanityLoveReading
Sherman AlexieAll I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, e… ▶314HumanityReadingThought
Sherman AlexieLike any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. ✨ FaceBook post bySherman Alexie from Oct 19, 20163710PoliticsReading
