Blasphemy Quotes

“In this world, we must love the liars or go unloved”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. He chewed and swallowed the last pieces of his father's life. He felt like he was building a museum of pain, a freak show, where he was the only visitor viewing the only mutant screaming the only prayer he knew: Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back, Daddy. Come back Daddy...”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Words can be like that, you know? Whenever I get into arguments now, I remember her and I also remember Muhammad Ali. He knew the power of his fists but, more importantly, he knew the power of his words, too.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“. A man doesn’t grow up black in the USA without knowing a lot of crazy black folks, without being born to and giving birth to the breakable and broken.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“I was dancing for my soul and for the soul of my tribe. I was dancing for what we Indians used to be and who we might become again.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“If you don’t like the things you remember, then all you have to do is change the memories. Instead of remembering the bad things, remember what happened immediately before.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Hello,” my doctor said. “Are you there?” “Yes,” I said. “So, what’s going on?” “There are irregularities in your head.” “My head’s always been wrong,”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Jesus, I don’t want to die today or tomorrow, but I don’t want to live forever.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Well, he’s scoring in that video.” “That guy wasn’t guarding him. Obama is POTUS. He is mother-effing POTUS. And even if he wasn’t POTUS, Obama still had that ball hanging out so far that anybody could have blocked it. You could have blocked it, Ed. That shit was as weak as the public option in health care. If Obama pulled that on me, I’d block it like some racist-ass redneck senator from Alabama.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“You’re cute and smart, and you’ve gotten everything you’ve ever asked for, and that makes you lazy and dangerous.” “Wow,”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Homer had transformed a lying colonial asshole into one of the most admired literary figures in human history. So, Corliss asked, what lessons could we learn from Homer? To be considered epic, one needed only to employ an epic biographer.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world. It doesn’t matter which as long as I continue to tell the stories.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“How many books do you have here?” Corliss asked. “Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven,” the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“Jesus, Junior said, all these years since Columbus landed and now he’s finally decided to fuck me in the ass.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories

“I'm a features writer, and an Indian at that, so I get all the shit jobs. Not the dangerous shit jobs or the monotonous shit jobs. No. I get to write the articles designed to please the eye, ear, and heart. And there is no journalism more soul-endangering to write than journalism that aims to please.”
― Sherman Alexie, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories