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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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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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You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
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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 learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them... ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's Smoke Signals
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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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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
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He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
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I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
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The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.
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I'm a poet who can whine in meter
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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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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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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
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If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
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