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Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?

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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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Circle
Revenge
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)
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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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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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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
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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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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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Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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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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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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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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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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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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If it's fiction, then it better be true.
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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