You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.

—Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

About Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

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When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

—Sherman Alexie in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous—everyone hasn't met me yet.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

—Richard M. Nixon

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

—J. G. C. Brainard

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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