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Sherman Alexie
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
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Sherman Joseph Alexie
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
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We're all travelling heavy with illusions.
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Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
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That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
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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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I look more Indian when I'm serious.
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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.
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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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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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White Americans have a short memory.
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You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.
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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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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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I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.
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