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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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Way
Everyone
Forgotten
Dreaming
Clicks
Love
Song
Door
Ashes
Fires
Lost
Sin
Soft
Lock
Like
House
Doors
Edges
Blanket
Hands
Boys
Indian
Fists
Dream
Fire
Forgiveness
Locks
Huddled
Earth
Within
Cancer
Closing
Blankets
Heart
Dies
Remain
Tight
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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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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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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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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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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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 think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
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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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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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All art is exploitation.
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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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