《一個印第安少年的超真實日記》的原文摘录
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It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it. Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. (查看原文) —— 引自第13页 -
But the IndianHealth Service funded major dental work only once a year, so I had to have all ten extra teeth pulled in one day. (查看原文) —— 引自第6页 -
our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain. (查看原文) —— 引自第6页 -
They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head. (查看原文) —— 引自第6页 -
Nobody can do that, not even the hungriest magician in the world. (查看原文) —— 引自第14页 -
A good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. (查看原文) —— 引自第14页 -
They dreamed about being something other than poor, but they never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams. (查看原文) —— 引自第14页 -
It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it. (查看原文) —— 引自第14页 -
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. (查看原文) —— 引自第14页 -
And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same? (查看原文) —— 引自第24页 -
My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. (查看原文) —— 引自第31页 -
We were trying to kill Indian culture. (查看原文) —— 引自第43页 -
You threw that book in my face because somewhere inside you refuse to give up. (查看原文) —— 引自第43页 -
I had to add my hope to somebody else's hope. I had to multiply hope bby hope. (查看原文) —— 引自第43页 -
You are a good kid. You deserve the world. (查看原文) —— 引自第43页 -
I stupidly hoped that time would stand still if I stayed still. (查看原文) —— 引自第53页 -
We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. There was no way Penelope and I were going ti sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly. (查看原文) —— 引自第113页 -
I think it means you're just a racist asshole like everybody else. (查看原文) —— 引自第117页 -
Being a really good friend, in fact. (查看原文) —— 引自第129页 -
If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing. Roger, being of kind heart and generous pocket, and a little bit racist, drove me home that night. And he drove me home plenty of other nights, too. (查看原文) —— 引自第129页
作者: 薛曼．亞歷斯
isbn: 9866488071
书名: 一個印第安少年的超真實日記
页数: 320
译者: 盧秋瑩
定价: 75.00元
出版社: 木馬文化事業有限公司
出版年: 2009-2
装帧: 平裝
又名: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian