He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody. Sherman Alexie More Quotes by Sherman Alexie More Quotes From Sherman Alexie I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. Sherman Alexie parent years thinking 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. Sherman Alexie feet winter night Pain is never added to pain. It multiplies. Sherman Alexie pain Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. Sherman Alexie perseverance lessons giving and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . . Sherman Alexie partners definitions two I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside of myself. I learned how to be somebody else. I learned how to be cold and numb. Sherman Alexie cold cry numb The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. Sherman Alexie three writing two Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming. Sherman Alexie doomed nostalgia Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact? Sherman Alexie drinking feelings world There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. Sherman Alexie adults literature thinking Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy. Sherman Alexie form fighting thinking My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. Sherman Alexie sober-up home father My name is Sherman J. Alexie Jr., and I am an insomniac. Sherman Alexie insomniac names What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment. Sherman Alexie moments inspire White Americans have a short memory. Sherman Alexie short-memory white memories My father is an amazing man. Sherman Alexie amazing-man men father In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do. Sherman Alexie real way world My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. Sherman Alexie father book lying We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye. Sherman Alexie good-bye bye way When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. Sherman Alexie tape song firsts
