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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

Sherman Alexie

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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Purpose
Children
Rebel
Figures
Authority
Teach

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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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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - Indian Boy Love Song #1
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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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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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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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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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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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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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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White Americans have a short memory.
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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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