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Sherman Alexie

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."

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Asa Don Brown

"Definition of a zombie, full spectrum ignorance."

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Asa Don Brown

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's better to be ignorant and live in bliss than know the truth and live in agony."

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Asa Don Brown

"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

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Asa Don Brown

"Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects."

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Asa Don Brown

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

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Asa Don Brown

"They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing."

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Asa Don Brown

"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."

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Asa Don Brown

"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."

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Sherman Alexie
"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

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Sherman Alexie
"But my grandmother wanted us to forgive her murderer."

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Sherman Alexie
"What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said."

Friendship

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Sherman Alexie
"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

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Sherman Alexie
"I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird."

Identity

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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."

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Sherman Alexie
"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

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Sherman Alexie
"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"

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Sherman Alexie
"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."

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Sherman Alexie
"Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floating in the air.She tells me Jesus' DNA ispart of the collective DNA.She tells we are all partof Jesus, we are all Jesus in part.She tells me to breathe deepduring all our stormsbecause you can sometimes taste Jesusin a good, hard rain."

Presence

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