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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
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It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
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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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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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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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I used to think the world was broken down by tribes, I said. By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
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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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Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.
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It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.
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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
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I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your epicness. But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins he's better than Richard Wilbur he's better than me.
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