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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

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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Lost
Sin
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Lock
House
Doors
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Boys
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Fists
Dream
Fire
Forgiveness
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Huddled
Earth
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Cancer
Closing
Blankets
Heart
Dies
Remain
Tight
Click
Way
Everyone
Forgotten
Dreaming
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Door
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Fires

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She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.
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Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
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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.
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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.
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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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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.
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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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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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