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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

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
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Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and I say one or two depending on your definition of what I did to Custer . . .
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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