"Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Two Quotes #Luxury Quotes #People Quotes

“Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.”
“I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!”
“A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.”
“Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.”
“There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!”
“You will get your difficulties with the point electron.”
“For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.”
“The way I see it Bill Elliott is just another way of saying fast”

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