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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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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
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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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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.
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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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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the only thing keeping me alive. Books are the best and worst defense.
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If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.
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