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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
"In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead."
Explore more quotes by Sherman Alexie
"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."
"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."
"I 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 making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood."I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble."
"Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable."
"But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one-The strangest stranger-in any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb."
"I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.So I'm never quite sure why we eat turkey like everybody else."
"I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive."
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