"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"

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Sherman Alexie

#Anger Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.”

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“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”
“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”
“I was very clear in saying that what I characterized as politically correct Liberals are unnecessarily inflaming what should not really be a contentious matter. The truth is, if anything we're uniting Canadians on this issue, and I believe uniting Muslim Canadians. And I believe that some folks who you might characterize as politically correct cultural relativists are unhelpfully inflaming - creating contention on this issue where there really is very little.”

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“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“I'm a private kind of person.”
“Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.”

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