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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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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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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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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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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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All I owe the world is my art.
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I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!
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I love to scare the already terrified assholes.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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