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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#ends #indeed #life #mental #mental life

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#feel #find #growing #growing up #i

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #created #felt #fled #having

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#adventurous #any #borders #crossing #happier

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. ↗

— Sai Baba

#another #energy #greatest #healing #help

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

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

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#both #damage #first #me #much