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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

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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Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.
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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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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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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.
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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
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If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
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it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
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Don't live up to your stereotypes.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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